From Black Lives Matter, to climate change, to the war in Gaza, the demand to hire more identity studies faculty and consultants is a constant
In 1800, Sampson Simson delivered a history lesson in Hebrew about the deep-rootedness of New York City’s Jews to the trustees of Columbia College
Elite universities went to war against fraternities and fun while indulging Hamas-admiring collectives, and the students have noticed
Lifting the Iron Curtain from academia won’t be easy. Then again, we have no choice.
A massive increase in foreign money and students on American campuses is driving radicalization and subsidizing institutional failure
A cultural studies professor who makes excuses for bigoted anti-Zionism is appointed to lead the university’s disingenuous ‘Task Force on Combating Antisemitism’
I’ve been fighting for free speech at UC Berkeley. Here’s how our universities have gone wrong—and what can be done to fix them.
Qatar is buying the Ivy League, along with every other institutional bauble in America, from the Brookings Institution, to Foreign Policy magazine, to the NHL and the NBA
How the Telluride Association Summer Seminar designed to teach teenagers about free-thinking and communal self-determination turned into an ideological ‘Lord of the Flies’
The number of Jews on major Ivy League campuses has been cut in half or more over the past decade by new elite doctrines that downplay merit in favor of amorphous definitions of ‘diversity’ and ‘privilege.’ But one Ivy may be bucking the trend.
A podcast about the hidden history of Jews and the Ivy League, from Unorthodox co-host Mark Oppenheimer
Christopher Eisgruber’s attachment to contradictory high principles is turning academic life on his Ivy League campus into a farce
America is now ruled by a single elite class rather than by local patrician smart sets competing with each other for money and power
Campus Week: Jewish populations are falling at schools like Harvard and Yale. Should we care?
A conversation about literature, Judaism, and the Almighty with the great Yale literary critic
Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind remains as important as ever, and as misunderstood, 25 years after the 1980s culture wars
Ivy League style, the quintessentially WASPy American look defined by Jewish designers a century ago, returns to the runways for Fashion Week
A nice Jewish boy with an Ivy League degree tells his parents that he has moved to L.A. to make porn. An excerpt from the memoir American Gangbang.
