The Crimson

The Crimson details the impact of a potential ruling against use of racial preferences in admissions, including race-neutral admissions alternatives.

Wall Street Journal

Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, argues that a decision against affirmative action in favor of meritocracy could be the impetus for ensuring true diversity on campus.

RealClear Politics

The reason Harvard Professor Roland Fryer’s well-funded lab remains closed even after he served a two-year suspension, Eisenberg argues, is that the University does not support diversity of thought. Is Harvard trying to protect students from Fryer or students (and the world) from Fryer’s research?

The Crimson

The Crimson recently completed a survey of the Harvard College Class of ‘22. Students were polled on their politics and values, foreign policy, domestic policy/issues, Harvard policies/issues, their post-college plans and much more. See the results!

Politico

Pressure is increasing on universities to divest from entities engaged in human rights abuses in China and elsewhere.

Palladium

An account of how Stanford, once known for its culture of spontaneity, individual difference, community and rule-breaking, has been flattened into controlled, equitable uniformity. “What happened at Stanford is a cultural revolution on the scale of a two-mile college campus.”

All-In Podcast

A founder of Palantir and UATX talks about the pursuit of truth as essential to a functioning society, intolerance on campus, the need for intellectual humility, the benefits of being offended, and why the smartest people are dropping out of PhD programs.

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk and Princeton’s Robert P. George discuss the state of universities today, John Rawls, and why democratic republics can’t function without free speech.

Chronicle of Higher Ed

Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Howard Gardner (AB ‘65, Phd ‘61) and Wendy Fischman (GSE ‘99) explain that today’s college students lack a sense of belonging and don’t see the purpose of college beyond getting a job. “Colleges need to reflect on and embody their central educational missions.”

Of Dissent and its Discontents | An Alum’s Lament

In Dissent and its Discontents, A Princeton alumnus explains why the firing of Joshua Katz “is the metaphorical hill I’m prepared to die on.” In An Alum’s Lament, an MIT alum explains why he will donate to Princeton’s James Madison Program instead of MIT.

Chronicle of Higher Ed

“The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is planning to spend $1.5 billion over the next 20 years on funding early-career academic scientists who say they’ll run diverse and welcoming labs.”

Common Sense

On the destruction of MIT cancer researcher David Sabatini, 'one of the greatest scientists' of his generation. This exposé raises alarms over due process, untoward financial motives, and the demise of life-saving research due to fear and retribution in academia.

Quillette

Psychologist Winegard laments the state of academia after his exile for unfashionable ideas. In this long-form piece, he recounts a trying journey—”my truncated career, like a public execution, became another warning…do not tread this path or you too may suffer this fate”—and discovery of hard truths—“academia has become an intellectual prison.”

Clifton Duncan Podcast

A must-listen conversation with FAIR in the Arts Fellow Clifton Duncan and Ignat Solzhenitsyn, composer, pianist and son of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The two discuss the impact of Russia’s difficult history on art, “speaking truth to power” in Russia vs. America, the necessity of the artist to live free and speak the truth, and much more. This episode follows another excellent episode with Duncan and FAIR Advisor Douglas Murray on The War on Western Art.

City Journal

In a recent speech, Glenn Loury blames ideologues for peddling false narratives, insists the American Dream applies to black Americans (and to say otherwise is a patronizing lie) and insists equality ”is something we must wrest with our bare hands from a cruel and indifferent world by means of our own effort, inspired by the example of our enslaved and newly freed ancestors.”

Conversations with Coleman

Coleman Hughes and Harvard’s Roland Fryer discuss Roland’s childhood, America’s progress on racism, “whether race consciousness can ever be a good thing,” “the nebulous concept of systemic racism,” Roland’s work on racial bias and police, his DEI company, Sigma Squared, and much more.

The Atlantic

Harvard alum and former Harvard debate team coach explains that "through reading, I learned that disagreement can be a source of good, not ill, even in our polarized age.” He recommends 10 books and stresses debate as essential to a healthy democracy.