Illiberal Arts Week in Higher Education

MIKE LACHANCE AUG 8, 2020 8:00 AM

This week we learned that creative disciplines like literature and music are not immune to cancel culture.

• Tulane Cancels Talk By Author After Students Misunderstand And Protest Book
• Cancel Culture Mob Comes for Music Theory Prof at U. North Texas
• Loyola University-Maryland Canceling Writer Flannery O’Connor for Supposed Racism

It’s just about Confederate statues, they said.

• Petition at Chapman U. Calls for Removal of Busts of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher
• 73% of Dem College Students Support Removal of Statues of Founding Fathers Who Owned Slaves

Then they came for Millard Fillmore.

• University at Buffalo Removing President Millard Fillmore’s Name From Campus

It’s about time.

• College Republicans and Democrats at Georgetown Join Together, Condemn Cancel Culture

The new narrative on campus.

• 150 Law School Deans Ask American Bar Assoc. to Require Training for Bias and Anti-Racism
• Students and Faculty at California State U. Los Angeles Issue Demands to Tackle ‘Anti-Blackness’
• U. Vermont Students and Faculty Demand Abolition of Campus Police, Flying of BLM Flag

Social media causes problems.

• College Student Expelled for Racist Social Media Content, Then Reinstated Because She Didn’t Post it
• Auburn University Lecturer in Hot Water Over Anti-Police Tweets

Gibson’s vs. Oberlin update.

• Gibson’s Bakery Files Brief Opposing Oberlin College Appeal

More of this is coming.

• Republicans in Congress Demand Universities Produce Records of All Foreign Donations
• U. Pennsylvania Can’t Explain Mysterious Donation From Chinese Company

Are Democrats still the party of science?

• Biologist Forced Out of Academia for Saying Male and Female are not Social Constructs

These things happen.

• Naval War College Official Placed on Leave Over Pornographic Link in Email

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