Diversity and Meritocracy, Together
by R. R. RenoMost of our elite universities have been rigorous about merit from their inceptions. What’s changed is what counts as merit. Continue Reading »
Googling Moral Purity
by R. R. RenoGoogle was not doing “the right thing” by firing software engineer James Damore. Continue Reading »
From Greatness to Inclusivity
by Mark BauerleinWhen a humanities department selects its materials because they reflect identity groups, it no longer functions as a humanities department.
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Progressive Homogenization
by Mark BauerleinWhile progressives are happy to recognize this or that identity, provided that doing so demonstrates their pluralistic instincts, in truth the divisions among these “aggrieved groups” only conduce to centralization. Continue Reading »
The Past is a Foreign Country
by Carl R. TruemanTony Esolen's love of poetry reminds me of my own love of history, and of why both are important. Continue Reading »
Who Are the Campus Custodians?
by Mark BauerleinIn this regime that probes people’s minds for hidden assumptions, for biases concealed even from their holders, the custodians have an impossible task. Continue Reading »
College Without Truth
by Molly OshatzNot long ago, I was an assistant professor of history at the most racially and ethnically diverse university in the country. There, diversity, equality, and inclusion took priority over all other goods. And it showed. My classrooms were full of students of different races, ethnicities, . . . . Continue Reading »
Coates's Lost Cause
by R. R. RenoBetween the World and Me has been received with great fanfare. It won the National Book Award in nonfiction for 2015, and its author, Ta-Nehisi Coates, was recently awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Grant. Our liberal establishment is aflutter, hailing Coates as his generation’s spokesman for . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Thiel's Non-Conformity
by Mark Bauerlein“If I could go back and give advice to my younger self, it might be this: Competition is for losers.”That’s the epigraph to an essay by Peter Thiel in the Spring issue of the Intercollegiate Review. It’s entitled “The Competition Myth,” and it lays out Thiel’s thesis in his book Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Thiel is an entrepreneur and a capitalist, but his wisdom derives not so much from Adam Smith as from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Continue Reading »
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