While there are malevolent outside actors doing what they can with universities, the influential corruption is internal.
Universities
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...
Weaponizing Plagiarism Will Help Restore Faith In Academic Institutions
Do we really want dishonest people driving research that has real-world consequences for the rest of us?
The Far Left and Far Right Converge in Hating Jews and Israel
They might not agree on much else, but the political far left and the far right strive to perfect and project their hate of Jews and Israel. They converge in this hatred, as in many other aspects of politics. Conventionally, following the spatial distribution of the...
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Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Leaders On The Frontier – Facts, Evidence and Ideologies – with Bryan Schwartz
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Who Is to Blame for the Anti-Semitism of Young People?
In a recent Free Press article, “We Were Taught to Hate Jews,” five individuals from Muslim families report on the anti-Semitism that was integral to their upbringing. One said: “It’s like asking me how often I drink water. Anti-Semitism was everywhere.” Ayaan Hirsi...
Does Academic Freedom Protect Genocidal Anti-Semitism?
American and Canadian university campuses rang for weeks on end with celebrations of Hamas’s “great victory” of Oct. 7. The murder of civilians, the burning alive of families, the gang rape of women to death, the roasting of children in ovens, and the beheading of...
John Bonnett: As A Prof At Brock University, I Don’t Want The ‘Woke Class’ Telling Me What To Say
Universities must remain strictly neutral on issues, save for one thing: the defence of academic freedom
How “Woke-ism” Threatens Academic Freedom
In November 2022, Paul Viminitz, a professor in the philosophy department at the University of Lethbridge, invited me to give a talk on the threat “woke-ism” poses for academic freedom. After pressure mounted to cancel the talk, the president of the University of...
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.
Does ‘Woke-ism’ Threaten Academic Freedom?
"Any presentation worth banning is a presentation worth attending.” So said Richard Mueller, an economics professor at the University of Lethbridge, on September 16 at the Lethbridge Public Library. Mueller was paraphrasing biochemist and writer Isaac Asimov who...
Meritocracy Or Mediocrity – Canada Must Choose
In “Civilization - The West and the Rest” historian Niall Ferguson asks why, from about 1500 AD, the West was able to rise from being a backwater of illiterate, unhygienic bumpkins to become the greatest civilization the world had ever seen. He suggests an answer: the...
Leaders on the Frontier – Wokeism And Its Path Of Destruction With Dr. Frances Widdowson
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