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Rebels turn right: Questioning leftist ideas is 'dangerous, alluring'
Rebelling against left-wing conformity, college students are moving to conservative spaces where debate and disagreement is welcome.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 262 min read
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University of Florida tops new college rankings
City Journal's new college rankings list University of Florida as best in the nation for inquiry and student success.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 262 min read
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College conformists: 88% of students say they fake progressive views to get along
Most college students pretend to agree with left-wing views to fit in on campus, concludes a new survey.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 142 min read
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Civility and conformity
Professors teach conformity to progressive orthodoxy.

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 182 min read
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'Americans got tired of being ridiculed for values like equality, color-blindness, and responsibility,' and now it's backlash time
The anti-DEI backlash is fierce, because so many people were forced to suppress their real feelings.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 182 min read
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A black professor leaves academia: 'Critical thinking became critical feeling'
Erec Smith, formerly a professor of rhetoric and composition, got tired of colleagues calling him "inauthentically Black" because he...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 26, 20241 min read
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71% of students say they'd report a professor for 'wrongthink'
College students are unwilling to tolerate professors with "offensive" opinions.

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 29, 20242 min read
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Backlash: Professors reject DEI 'loyalty oaths'
Universities should stop requiring diversity statements, writes Randall L. Kennedy, a Harvard Law professor, in the Harvard Crimson....

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 5, 20242 min read
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A professor writes: What I really think about DEI
James Hankins, a Harvard history professor, posts an honest diversity statement addressed to "dear members of Harvard's Faceless...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 21, 20242 min read
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You can't say that
Students don't have real discussions in his AP English class, writes 11th-grader Zach Gottlieb in the Los Angeles Times. Every one knows...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 12, 20232 min read
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Shut up, they explained
Cancel culture -- "campaigns to get people fired, disinvited, deplatformed, or otherwise punished" for dissenting from orthodox views --...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 29, 20232 min read
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'Diversity statements' are out in North Carolina, Texas ...
Would-be professors will not be asked to pledge allegiance to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) to be considered for a job at the...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 1, 20231 min read
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