(This is the third article in my “Graves of Academe” series. The first two are here and here.) What you read below is not made up. They are signs of the times. They tell of our decline and fall. As King Lear said, nothing will come of nothing. Positions Available: #1. “The Program in Literature at […]
Woman Who Broke Story of Racism Against Duke Volleyball Player Was Involved in Fake Race Accusation Before
New in PJ Media: By now, the story has gone all around the world, as such stories tend to do. As PJM’s Rick Moran noted when the story broke, it all started at “a women’s volleyball game played at BYU in Utah where a black Duke University player alleges that fans hurled racist taunts at her.” But […]
Duke Professor’s Distorted Lens into Israel/Palestinian Conflict
Israel exhibits a “colonial systematology about nativeness” in the treatment of online smartphone pictures of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, stated Duke University associate professor of anthropology Rebecca Stein during a Nov. 4 webinar. This presentation, at George Washington University’s Institute for Middle East Studies (IMES). of her new book, Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine, exposed her […]
Trump Administration to UNC and Duke: Quit Promoting Islam on Our Dime
My latest in PJ Media: Will the Trump Administration move against the radioactive wastelands of far-Left indoctrination and Islamic proselytizing that our nation’s colleges and universities have become? On Friday, it made a small, long overdue step in that direction: Associated Press reported that “the Trump administration is threatening to cut funding for a Middle […]
Trump administration threatens funding for UNC/Duke course promoting Islam
This is long overdue: “The Trump administration is threatening to cut funding for a Middle East studies program run by the University of North Carolina and Duke University, claiming that it’s misusing a federal grant to advance ‘ideological priorities’ and unfairly promote ‘the positive aspects of Islam’ but not Christianity or Judaism.” There are courses […]
Duke cancels plan for Muslim call to prayer from chapel tower
The Hamas-linked terror organization known as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will trumpet this as a victory for “Islamophobia,” and fundraise off it. But it is actually a victory for common sense, as explained here. “Duke Cancels Plan for Muslim Call to Prayer From Tower,” by Jonathan Drew, Associated Press, January 15, 2015: Duke […]
Duke University: Muslim Brotherhood group to chant Muslim call to prayer over loudspeakers weekly
This “connects the university to national trends in religious accommodation.” Indeed it does, but those trends all go in one direction only: when will we hear church bells ringing from Muslim universities, as a gesture of religious pluralism? And how appropriate is it to broadcast “Allahu akbar” over loudspeakers on the Duke campus, when on […]