Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics I’ve been intermittently visiting – sometimes with amusement, always with horror — a website where academic jobs are advertised. I do this not for myself, but to help keep tabs for a friend’s son, who has been looking for permanent employment in a university for several years. His problem is […]
UC Berkeley Calls Cops on Protest Against ‘Jewish Free Zones’
At Berkeley, banning Jews is free speech, protesting anti-Semitism isn’t. During the Black Lives Matter riots, UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ endorsed police defunding. “Elements of our country’s law enforcement culture dehumanize some of the very people whose safety and wellness police officers are sworn to protect,” she falsely claimed. Two weeks ago, UC Berkeley called the […]
Could UC Berkeley Lose Its Federal Funding? We Can Hope.
New in PJ Media: Colleges and universities in the United States, with a few notable exceptions, haven’t been institutions of higher learning for quite some time; instead, they’re centers for Leftist, America-hating indoctrination, and, that being the case, are in crying need of drastic reform or should be shut down altogether. Now Michael Lawler, a […]
The Berkeley ‘No Free Speech for Jews’ Movement
Kenneth Marcus, who under Trump all too briefly served as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Ed, calls the move by nine student affinity groups and organizations at Berkeley’s School of Law to ban Jewish speakers to be “Jewish-Free Zones.” Nine different law student groups at the University of California at Berkeley’s School […]
Berkeley Professor of ‘Islamophobia’ Claims ‘the Muslim Is Presumed Guilty’ on U.S. Campuses
My latest in PJ Media: Hatem Bazian, director of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender, offered a startling revelation recently to Religion News Service (RNS): Muslims at American colleges and universities are suffering through a horror show of hatred, bigotry, and discrimination. “The Muslim is presumed guilty” on American […]
UC Berkeley study claims that ‘Islamophobia undermines and weakens women’s rights’
This is a typical pseudo-academic inversion of reality designed to bamboozle the ignorant and easily led. What really undermines and weakens women’s rights is this: The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior […]
UC-Berkeley: Despite police statement to contrary, Muslim Student Association calls teen’s killing “hate crime”
Actual anti-Muslim hate crimes are so thin on the ground that the entire narrative that Muslims are more victimized than victimizers in contemporary American society, and that therefore counterterror efforts are a manifestation of “Islamophobia” and should be curtailed, is in constant danger of collapsing altogether. So incidents that are not anti-Muslim hate crimes have […]
UC Berkeley Pits Liberalism Against ‘Islamophobia’
Fast on the heels of the University of California’s anti-free speech “Battle of Berkeley”—in which hundreds of black-clad, left-wing, “anti-fascists” attacked Trump supporters in the streets—around five hundred students and scholars attended the weekend conference “Islamophobia & The End of Liberalism?” The conference poster featured a righteously concerned Statue of Liberty embracing a young Muslim […]
UC-Berkeley: Left-fascists riot, prevent Milo speech, Trump threatens federal funds
What happened in Berkeley last night is the end point of what I have noted many times: that American colleges and universities are no longer centers of free inquiry and intellectual exploration. Instead, they are merely centers of hard-Left propaganda and indoctrination. In this, UC-Berkeley is foremost. President Trump wrote: “If U.C. Berkeley does not […]
University of California-Berkeley student’s article about why she left Islam pulled from school paper over fears for her safety
I saw the piece when it first went up in the Berkeley student newspaper, marveled that it was published at all in such a place, and had planned to post an excerpt at Jihad Watch, but it was gone before I got a chance. Now we know why: there are concerns for the safety of […]