While there are malevolent outside actors doing what they can with universities, the influential corruption is internal.
Philip Carl Salzman
What Lies Behind Student Pro-Hamas, Anti-Israel, and Anti-Semitic Uprisings?
The sudden uprising of university students across North America in support of Hamas and allegedly about the welfare of Palestinians does not result, for most students, from close ties with people on the other side of the world. Of course, there is in North America a...
What Do Israelis Want; What Do Palestinians Want?
Israelis and Palestinians want contrary things. Pretending that their wants are reconcilable does not help; it obfuscates reality. Imposing policies not based on reality guarantees failure. Jewish Israelis want to live in a secure and prosperous society in their...
Why Are We Surprised That Mobs of Hamas Supporters Disrupt Our Lives and Spread Hate?
As mobs rampage through American and Canadian streets celebrating and championing Hamas and its genocidal anti-Semitism, disrupting university campuses and blocking access to Jewish-owned stores, restaurants, and houses of worship, most citizens and political figures...
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Hamas Can Be Destroyed, but Can Islamic Supremacism Be Destroyed?
Most of what you have been told about the Palestine-Israel conflict is at best misleading, and much of the rest has no basis in fact. One common false claim involves the cause of the conflict. The underlying source of the conflict is not territory, human rights, or...
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Who Now Still Believes in Our Universities?
If you wonder why university students celebrate the barbaric atrocities of Hamas, the lies of postcolonial theory and critical race theory explain a good part.
Official Antisemitism Marks The Demise Of Anthropology
Betraying the premises and ethics of anthropology, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) has thrown its weight behind the anti-Israel, antisemitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. This is the final act in transforming a field of honest academic...
Why Are Native Impersonators Fired While Female Impersonators Are Celebrated?
The president of Memorial University of Newfoundland, Vianne Timmons, was fired by the university’s Board of Regents in April 2023, according to an Epoch Times report. She had claimed that her father’s great-great-grandmother was Mi’kmaq. This claim was challenged by...
Reverse Racism Harms Us All
Justifying one form of racism justifies all forms of racism, historical and to be invented. All advocates of racism claim that their vilifying and persecuting certain categories of people are justified. Today, the fact that certain census categories of people are...
How Reverse Discrimination Undermines Our Culture and Citizenship
American and Canadian institutions — business, education, military, medical, legal, and government — have all intentionally instituted systemic discrimination against white citizens who are increasingly treated as villains or excluded entirely. In the past, when the...
How to Turn Free Citizens Into Compliant Serfs
Free citizens have minds of their own and want to pursue their lives as they see fit. This is inconvenient for the elites, who wish to be in charge of everyone’s lives so that they can show their superiority and gain benefit for themselves and their friends. So the...
America 2023 Is Not Quite Germany 1930s… Yet
Leftists specialize in pejorative labeling of anyone who disagrees with them, calling them racist, sexist, homophobe, transphobe, Islamophobe, deplorable, etc. But they save their ultimate insults for their most important targets; they are labeled “fascists,” “Nazis,”...