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Harvard Reduced Jewish Student Population From 25% to 5% of Student Population, Hopes To Reduce Further to 1-2%
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Returning to the days of “restricted” policy. Eliminating the brain trust from what was the world’s leading university is not smart. But the left isn’t smart, the left is vicious and the left is violent. Might makes right in their books. Think about what could have been done with the vast […]
Higher Education’s “Donor Revolt”: A Conversation with ACTA’s Michael Poliakoff and Emily Koons Jae (Part 1 of 2)
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Michael E. Hartmann The American Council of Trustees and Alumni’s president and vice president talk to Michael E. Hartmann about philanthropic support of higher education and efforts to reform it—before and after October 7. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) was founded in 1995 to bring the voices of alumni and then trustees to […]
Young Americans Think the Holocaust Is a ‘Myth,’ ‘Exaggerated,’ or Political Ploy
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Philosopher George Santayana is often attributed with coining the phrase, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Such a well-known saying almost seems cliché. But does it have merit? Reflecting on Ecclesiastes 1:9, we know there is nothing new under the sun, and we often see history […]
Tax Planning For Freedom: The Arizona School Choice Trust
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel This is the time of year when investors and individuals are thinking about tax planning. Many will be looking to take portfolio gains or losses to minimize taxation. Others will be looking for charitable deductions to achieve similar ends. Is there a way to combine personal economic needs, and charitable instincts in […]
Niall Ferguson: The Treason of the Intellectuals
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Niall Ferguson Anyone who has a naive belief in the power of higher education to instill morality has not studied the history of German universities in the Third Reich. In 1927 the French philosopher Julien Benda published La trahison des clercs—“The Treason of the Intellectuals”—which condemned the descent of European intellectuals into extreme nationalism and […]
The Moral Bankruptcy of Higher Education — and the Opportunity it Gives Christians
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council In a disturbing House hearing this week, the heads of three of America’s most prestigious universities — Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — equivocated on whether calls for the slaughter of the Jewish people are acceptable. Used to employing the artful dodges of academic jargon, […]
Ivy League University Leaders Resign Amid Outrage Over Handling Of Campus Antisemitism
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) president and Board of Trustees chairman both announced their resignation on Saturday, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian. UPenn President Elizabeth Magill faced widespread criticism following a hearing of the House of Representatives Education and Workforce Committee on Dec. 5, where she refused to say that calling for the genocide of Jews […]
Dem School Board President Sworn in on Sexually Explicit Books
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council The new president of one of Pennsylvania’s largest school districts was sworn into office with her hand on sexually-explicit LGBT propaganda and “banned” books. Democrat Karen Smith took up her new position Monday night as the head of the Central Bucks School District (CBSD) and immediately moved to undo Republican-led, pro-parent, and pro-family […]
Maryland: Marxist Teachers Union official makes list of wealthy Jews she calls ‘gluttons and thieves,’ blames Trump
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch “Fear is leading to censorship. I hope this person gets anti-imperialism and joins us in the struggle … No war but class war!” No Marxist should be getting anywhere near our schools, but today they’re in control. Meanwhile, this hate-filled creature epitomizes how the Left’s identification with the “Palestinian” jihad — which […]
Hollywood Has Forgotten Its Own Lessons On Masculinity — And One Timeless Classic Proves It
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Gage Klipper What makes a great superhero film? Although filmmakers have lost sight of it, it’s not so hard to tell: a moral compass rooted in masculine virtue. America invented the superhero in 1938 with the first Superman comic, but its legacy has been lost in a matrix of franchise fatigue. With “hero” now flippantly used […]
Georgetown Professor Jonathan Brown: All Non-Muslims Had To Do To Be Equal Was Convert to Islam
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report All non-Muslims had to do to achieve equality under Islam was to stop being non-Muslims teaches Georgetown Professor Jonathan Brown. Is that all? Under Islamic rule, he’s not wrong. But that he is teaching that it’s a good thing is the problem. The left has utterly co-opted and destroyed the world’s finest […]
Harvard Donors Start to Notice the Shift in Culture at this Formerly Great Institution
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Vlad Tepes Blog Billionaire Harvard Donor, Bill Ackman writes letter exposing the fully communist nature of the culture at Harvard. Daily Mail: Bill Ackman posts excoriating letter to Harvard’s president Claudine Gay taking aim at anti-Semitism, free speech and discrimination against straight white men and Asian students in the guise of ‘equity’ Billionaire hedge […]
Arizona GOP Lawmakers Hint At University Budget Cuts Over Free Speech Concerns
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Cameron Arcand Editors’ Note: Free speech certainly is a major concern. However, it goes much deeper than that. The Left has established an intellectual monopoly on our campuses that will allow no diversity of viewpoints. Search committees, faculty senates, and departments all work in tandem to deny Conservative scholars from being hired. Those who […]
How Can We Stop Serving Students So Poorly?
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Gary M. Galles In 1942, there were 108,579 public school districts in the United States. By the 2020-21 school year, there were only 13,187. That massive consolidation of school districts was propelled by the belief that economies of scale created by larger school districts would lower costs and serve students better. Those presumed efficiencies have not, […]
Minnesota Middle School Restricted Cell Phones a Year Ago, the Results Are ‘Just Night and Day’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council When I was in middle school, I had a flip phone meant exclusively to contact family members (and maybe a couple close friends). Half the time I didn’t even want to text on it because it was one of those keyboards where you have to press the button two or three […]
Are You Serious? That’s What Caused University of Arizona’s $240 Million Shortfall
/in Education, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Matt Vespa The University of Arizona will have to enter a period of extreme austerity after its administration lost $240 million. Drastic cuts are expected, sending the faculty, the board of regents, and others into a tailspin of confusion and anger (via Associated Press): Students and faculty members harshly criticized University of Arizona President Robert […]
Exposing America’s Cultural Revolutionaries
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni A review of The Canceling of the American Mind, by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott, 2023, Simon & Schuster, New York, 443 pages. The Canceling of the American Mind appears to have been written in a hurry and could’ve used some editing and wordsmithing. But it’s worth reading for its many […]
Iowa Universities Told to Pull Back DEI Functions
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kim Jarrett Editors Note: We think this is a good start, but it does not go far enough. We would hope in Arizona the Board of Regents and the legislature would call for the elimination of all DEI programs. Students should be admitted and teaching positions should be filled on the basis of merit, […]
Seattle Middle School Teacher Made Students Write Hate Mail to Moms for Liberty
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Moms for Liberty, a conservative parental rights group, received a surprise package from Jane Addams Middle School in Seattle. It consisted of letters that appeared to be written by the middle school students with phrases such as “Say Gay,” “Gay is slay, stop being a rat,” and a repeated use of […]
Progressive Public High School Offers Race-Segregated Classes
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies have grown so diverse that they now include policies reminiscent of the Jim Crow era. A Chicago-area school district is attempting to boost academic achievement among black and Latino students by offering blacks-only and Latino-only classes. The segregated classes are called “affinity” classes, and they aim to […]
Too Many Laws
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky There are many joys of being a Californian. The price of housing, the price of gas, and the price of electricity are just a few. One that is not discussed is how our elected leaders are constantly changing the laws under which we are governed. This is one of the worst aspects […]
‘Not Paying A Single Dollar’: Wealthy Jewish Families Dump Elite Universities Over Pro-Gaza Protests
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Wealthy Jewish families are not having their college-bound children apply for Ivy League schools following antisemitic incidents and protests against Israel. Schools in conservative states, like Washington University in Missouri, Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Texas are seeing the influx of applications from Jewish students who […]
What Is Racism?
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni “Racism” is one of the many catchall words that are bandied about without definition or much thought. Anyone with the temerity to question the meaning of “racism” or to ask for a definition of the word risks being called a racist. Well, so be it. Given that “racism” has become one […]
The Curious Case of Rob Malley
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Peter Schweizer Hamas’s war against Israel, coordinated with Iran, has exposed the fault lines in the American Left. While mainstream Democratic liberals have sided with the innocent Israelis massacred by Hamas terrorists, leftist “Squad” members in Congress compete with Ivy League campus radicals to outdo one another by championing the vicious murderers as a […]
Interesting Charts For Provocative Thoughts
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel We have been told that we have had the hottest summer on record and the forests over the summer were all burning up. That is what the media tells us. There seems to be just a slight conflict with the facts. Technology continues to pull the stock market up, even as other […]
Even Though Unparalleled Deeds Offend Today, Great Men Did Shift History
/in Education, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Elad Vaida Vaida Napoleon’s ambition, decisiveness, and drive made him excellently suited to make the most out of the tumult of the revolution. Antony Beevor’s latest article in The Telegraph discusses Ridley Scott’s upcoming film about Napoleon’s life and laments the fact that heroic figures like Napoleon give weight to the Great Man Theory. Beevor […]
The Administrative State’s Digital Currency Ruse
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Paul Gottfried When I read about an executive order issued by the Biden administration last year regarding a plan for digital currency, I naturally suspected something quite dire. Generally speaking, whatever the modern, self-described “liberal democratic” administrative state claims to be doing to help supposedly disadvantaged people is actually intended primarily, if not exclusively, […]
Harvard And Hamas
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Conlan Salgado Our political class likes euphemisms. One of its favorites is “democracy”; democracy sounds better than “a systemic agenda of censorship, economic irresponsibility, increasing surrender of foreign interests abroad, an almost totally open policy on the border, inability to control crime and drug waves, and a recruiting and morale crisis in our armed […]
Jordan Peterson: Marxist ‘Oppressor-Oppressed’ Narrative Brainwashed American Youth
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Catherine Salgado “[P]eople have bought this idiot meta-Marxism which is that the way to look at every social relationship that people ever have is through the lens of power.” Dr. Jordan Peterson had a brilliant response to a skeptical Bill Maher, who is wrong most of the time, on the issue of young and […]
Pentagon Official At Office Overseeing Elementary Schools Arrested In Human Trafficking Sting
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Stephen Francis Hovanic, a top administrator for the Pentagon’s school system in the Americas region, was arrested on Nov. 15 in a human trafficking sting in Coweta County, Georgia, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Hovanic, 64, of Sharpsburg, Georgia, was arrested on suspicion of pandering, according to a press […]