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Kathleen This week has hosted an unusual amount of conservative speakers on the Cornell campus. On Monday, Yuval Levin, of National Affairs fame, addressed the student body through our “Freedom and Free Societies” speaker series. Levin gave a really succinct overview of the implications of...

I posted earlier today about a study by Cornell Professors Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci finding that career and other choices, not discrimination, are the best explanations for the currently low levels of female participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Profs. Williams and Ceci...

Yesterday I posted on the Manhattan Institute’s online magazine, Minding the Campus, which “is dedicated to the revival of intellectual pluralism and the best traditions of liberal education.” The post was in response to the outrage that ensued after an announcement that the African Studies...

Three students have committed suicide on the Cornell campus recently, including two last week, by jumping from bridges over the numerous gorges which run through campus. The mood is somber. We need to do a better job helping students keep life in perspective. We place...

With the politics which seems to dominate all our lives, it is easy to lose sight of what matters most. This afternoon the Cornell University community lost one of our undergraduate students to swine flu. As the father of three college-age students, my heart goes...

My interview on Fox News digital: "They want an exception to rules that everyone else has to follow. I think that’s what’s driving this: cry-bullies that think they don’t have to live by the rules that other people have to live by."

"This was not a student group or individual staff member gone rogue, this was an entire school district gone rogue, ignoring clear federal, state, and local nondiscrimination laws." EPP seeks a civil rights monitor for ICSD, because the district "cannot be trusted to self-supervise when it comes to discrimination and its promises to stop discriminating cannot be relied upon."