#As antisemitism spikes on campuses, remember that colleges are also workplaces

#As antisemitism spikes on campuses, remember that colleges are also workplaces

The scenes of Jewish students experiencing antisemitism on college campuses are frightening. But colleges are also workplaces, and the antisemitism that Jewish staff and faculty are experiencing is no less frightening for its intensity, their inability to avoid it and their greater and more particularized fear of retaliation. The agency charged with enforcing federal antidiscrimination…

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#Letters to the Editor — Jan. 4, 2023

#Letters to the Editor — Jan. 4, 2023

“Letters to the Editor — Jan. 4, 2023” The Issue: Ronald S. Lauder’s piece on the normalization of anti-Semitism on college campuses. The Ivy League should be renamed the “Poison Ivy League” (“Ivy Fear & Loathing,” Ronald Lauder, PostOpinion, Jan. 2). Few can any longer question that the ever-increasing hatred of Jews on college campuses…

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#Letters to the Editor — Jan. 1, 2023

#Letters to the Editor — Jan. 1, 2023

“Letters to the Editor — Jan. 1, 2023” Killer’s freedomGov. Hochul has shown her contempt and disregard for murder victims and their families by granting clemency to Bruce Bryant, convicted killer of 11-year-old Travis Lilley (“Kat gives a break to boy’s killer,” Dec. 24). Travis was a child who was robbed of his life by…

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#Letters to the Editor — Dec. 26, 2022

#Letters to the Editor — Dec. 26, 2022

“Letters to the Editor — Dec. 26, 2022” The Issue: Stanford University’s release of a guide on “harmful” language, including the word “American.” Stop the insanity, please (“World wide woke,” Dec. 21). Stanford University has gone off the deep end with this nonsensical initiative to eliminate so-called “harmful” language. (And I’m willing to bet that…

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#‘Living hell’ and the destruction of academic freedom

#‘Living hell’ and the destruction of academic freedom

“‘Living hell’ and the destruction of academic freedom” If universities don’t protect free speech and open debate, they’re no better than finishing schools, if not outright propaganda factories — serving not the nation or the search for truth, but simply the dominant ideology. But that’s increasingly what US colleges have become, routinely closing the door…

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#What GWU’s Clarence Thomas cancel campaign teaches about campus intolerance

#What GWU’s Clarence Thomas cancel campaign teaches about campus intolerance

“What GWU’s Clarence Thomas cancel campaign teaches about campus intolerance” Clarence Thomas last week became cancel culture’s latest target. It’s not an unfamiliar position for the Supreme Court justice, but it generated surprising support at a leading law school. Thousands signed a petition calling for Thomas’ removal as a law lecturer at George Washington University, where I…

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#Fear a friendless future and other commentary

#Fear a friendless future and other commentary

“#Fear a friendless future and other commentary” Iconoclast: Fear a Friendless Future “Friendlessness is on the rise,” cautions The Week’s Damon Linker. “That’s the troubling takeaway” from a study showing the number of Americans with “no close friends” has risen “fivefold over the past 30 years.” It’s not just “bad for the lonely,” it’s “a…

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