The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

A Jihad in Minnesota

Tnuza Jamal Hassan is charged with first-degree arson. An Islamic terrorist has attacked a university in St. Paul: A former St. Catherine University student charged with setting fires on the college’s St. Paul campus told police she did it because she’d “been reading about the U.S. military destroying schools in Iraq or Afghanistan and she […]

Ex-Partner Accuses ‘Nonbinary Transfemme’ @EliErlick of Sexual Abuse

Eli Erlick (left); Danielle “Danie Yun” Diamond (right). In April 2017, Glamour magazine named Pitzer College senior Eli Erlick one of their “College Women of the Year,” the first time a transgender person (born male) was chosen for this honor. A few months later, one of Erlick’s former classmates, a woman who has since undergone […]

How About an ‘Insanity Studies’ Major? UPDATE: ‘Queer’ With ‘Psychotic Episodes’ and ‘Endless Mental Fog’

It’s difficult to describe the cognitive dissonance I sometimes experience. Here at home, today was filled by a cheerful family holiday celebration. Meanwhile, however, the world is full of depravity and despair. Because my work involves searching through feminist blogs, I have a very pessimistic view of America’s future. If these people are our future, […]

Let Trinity College F***ing Die?

Trinity College is the second-oldest institution of higher education in Connecticut. (Yale University is the oldest.) Ranked in the top 50 private liberal arts colleges in the country, Trinity is an elite school, where the annual cost of attendance (tuition, fees, room and board) is $68,970. Founded by Episcopalians, Trinity’s motto is Pro Ecclesia Et […]

The Insane Professor

  Griffin Epstein teaches at George Brown College in Toronto. In 2009, she wrote her master’s thesis on “mad Jewish identity,” which began: “Can we be accountable to privilege? Can we find a space for coherent anti-racist secular Ashkenazi Jewish identity in North America, where Jews have been deeply implicated in structural violence? Can we […]

The Poisonous Fruit of ‘Social Justice’

  Everyone is commenting on this New York Times column in which a black professor offers an argument that could be reduced to a syllogism: Premise A: Donald Trump got elected. Premise B: Donald Trump is racist; ergo, Conclusion: Black children can’t be friends with white children. Really, this is the essence of his argument, […]

Professor Explores How K-12 Education ‘Can Help Kids Turn Out Queer’

  This news is unsurprising to anyone who pays attention to academia: A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) recently argued in favor of using art education to help “kids turn out queer.” Adam Greteman, who teaches aspiring K-12 art teachers, published an article in the current edition of the […]

Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It

    Last week, the Internet went wild about Professor Jessie Daniels, who teaches sociology at the Hunter College campus of the City University of New York (CUNY). What did Professor Daniels say? Jessie Daniels, a self-described “expert on race,” began her tweetstorm . . . by declaring that “what I’ve learned is that the […]

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