"building sweeps are in progress"...
Two-thirds of students say it is acceptable to shout down a speaker to prevent them from speaking on campus, almost one in four say it is acceptable to use violence to stop a campus speech, sharply up 5 percentage points from last year’s 18%....
Campus Reform reports how conservative student groups nationwide have trouble finding faculty advisors. At Cornell, I end up being faculty advisor to most right-of-center student campus groups because there is no one else to do it. Does this make me "the most important Social Justice...
Confirms what I have been pointing out for years: "many Cornellians are scared to challenge the progressive status quo and speak in opposition to those pushing ideological conformity"...
"Scholars questioned the legality and the wisdom of Cornell's stance in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic."...
"Conventional wisdom would have it that the 'black' in black holes has nothing to do with race."...
“Elevated Risk & High-Risk Events”...
Foundation for Individual Rights In Education: "the proposal raises concerns that faculty will be compelled to affirm and promote certain views as a condition of their employment and eligibility for promotion and tenure, contrary to Cornell’s robust promises of free expression and academic freedom."...
My interview on the Can We Talk About It podcast with Debi Ghate....
“The knowledge-sharing and real-world solutions that these relationships produce benefit the citizens of our partner countries”...
The ball is in the court of President Martha Pollack, and possibly the Board of Trustees, whether to impose these destructive mandates on the university where not even the Faculty Senate could come to a clear, consistent, or overwhelming consensus....
My appearance on the Freeborn & Liberty Podcast: "There are real consequences to this movement that we're seeing, which is a combination of cancel culture, Critical Race Theory, Marxism, and just mean-spiritedness of the type that people can be very cruel to each other when...
"Libraries are predominantly white fields, and Cornell is no exception in this regard."...
Anonymous faculty member opposing proposed Critical Race Theory mandates: "I no longer teach topics that I taught only a couple of years ago, and which I taught without anyone complaining that I was being offensive...
"While my account is still visible, I cannot tweet or retweet from it and am effectively locked out."...
My online lecture today for Scholars for Peace in the Middle East: Cancel culture has "morphed into an extremely dangerous targeting of people, attempts to destroy their lives, to so-called dox them, to harass them, to harass their employers, to harass people who know them...
"these Proposals both individually and collectively impose an ideological orthodoxy and adherence to a Critical Race Theory (CRT) view of the world, in violation of the educational purpose of the University and faculty academic freedom"...
A proposal to be presented this week to the Faculty Senate and voted on later this month imposes mandatory 'anti-racism' education for faculty that is inconsistent with academic freedom and freedom of conscience....
