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  • Demo Cliff 

    Demo Cliff 

    The demographic cliff is real, and the latest college enrollment figures do not disprove it.
  • Sister Cindy Says, ‘Hell Is Hot, Don’t Be a Thot’

    Sister Cindy Says, ‘Hell Is Hot, Don’t Be a Thot’

    The viral campus preacher has some unconventional ways of promoting chastity.

    “Hell is hot, don’t be a thot.” That is one of the many slogans coined by Cindy Smock, better known as Sister Cindy, a 67-year-old evangelical Christian preacher touring American…

  • What Guides Peter Wood?

    What Guides Peter Wood?

    The NAS president believes Americans have an obligation to preserve the best of the civilization they have inherited.

    Peter Wood has led the National Association of Scholars (NAS) for nearly two decades. But what has guided him throughout those years? That is one of the questions David Blankenhorn…

  • Fear Is a Prerequisite for Wisdom

    Fear Is a Prerequisite for Wisdom

    Halloween reminds us that a liberal education should teach students not merely to acquire knowledge, but to understand what they fear and why.

    This is the week when pumpkins are carved, costumes are prepared, and millions of kids go from house to house to ask for candy and trick-or-treat. Other than Christmas, which…

  • Going Underground

    Going Underground

    From Confucius Institutes to DEI, colleges are finding ways to keep subversive programs out of sight.

    Higher education seems to be biding its time, but what for, and until when, remains unclear. However, recent probes into colleges and universities have unearthed troubling truths: disguised “diversity, equity,…

  • Foggy Still

    Foggy Still

    On October 28, 1776…

    In 1683, English settlers in Rye, New York, paid “a valuable sum of money” to the Weckquaeskeck people for about 4,400 acres of land 25 miles north of Manhattan.

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  • Going Underground

    Going Underground

    From Confucius Institutes to DEI, colleges are finding ways to keep subversive programs out of sight.
  • Restorative Justice Isn’t Working

    Restorative Justice Isn’t Working

    Its defenders point to fewer suspensions and arrests. That is not the same thing as better student behavior.
  • Why Is the Emperor Naked?

    Why Is the Emperor Naked?

    Jason Arday’s rise at Cambridge reveals the cowardice and institutional failure produced by higher education’s DEI regime.
  • The Vanishing Male Novelist

    The Vanishing Male Novelist

    The absence of young male novelists signifies the death of American culture.

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