Tag: universities

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During my recent interview with Greg Johnson about my novel Critical Daze, the sequel to The No College Club, he asked me if I was, in effect, telling young white kids that they should not attend college. After all, in the story the four main characters form an organization which assists young whites who run afoul of cultural Marxism, often by providing them with an alternative to university training. (more…)

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CHAPTER 2
THE LAST GLASS BEAD GAME

Decommissioning The Universities

It is difficult to imagine that there is either the wherewithal or energy within the university to constitute or reconstitute the idea of an educated human being and establish a liberal education again.
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (more…)

Martin Davidson at the university founded by Thomas Jefferson. (Photo from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business website.)

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Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes.
— William Shakespeare

I have written about the pervasive ideological subversion of American universities and the corruption and hypocrisy that is rampant in higher education in previous Counter-Currents posts. Universities are the fons et origo of the racial madness sweeping through our institutions. (more…)

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Most everybody seemed to get along in the decade prior to the turn of this century. At least it was that way in my world. Blacks had equal rights: some were superstars in sports, some had recording contracts, and some starred in movies. All was good and things were equal — or so I had thought. (more…)

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A recent article from Business Insider, “Pfizer CEO slams Harvard, MIT, and UPenn’s presidents: ‘One of the most despicable moments in the history of US academia,’” has a doozy for a cover photo. On the left is Albert Bourla, CEO of the most wonderful corporation in the world, which of course is Pfizer. He looks like a Space Lizard with an almost passable human disguise. (more…)

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Michael Gibson
Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University
Ashland, Ore.: Blackstone Publishing, 2022

It is no secret that American universities are torpid, decaying institutions mired in corruption, stagnation, and bureaucracy. Despite their bloated endowments and grandiose mission statements, they have failed at the most basic level. (more…)

Graffito in a University of Lyon classroom during the 1968 student revolts.

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“Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae” — Motto of Harvard University

In a previous Counter-Current essay, I asserted that “universities are the fons et origio of much of our current misery.” For a little taste of it, click on this UC Berkeley link. (more…)

Lee Bollinger, the President of Columbia University who owns an $11.7 million apartment in New York City, thinks that affirmative action needs to continue for “generations” and that Hillary Clinton is “exceptional.”

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“A fish rots from the head down.”

Perhaps an old Turkish proverb; it has also been attributed to Erasmus, written in a Greek text.

A literal translation of it would be an encouragement to point the long, boney finger of accusation at the leadership of an organization or society when it begins to stink of incompetence, corruption, and degeneracy.

If one were to take a deep breath, it would be difficult in this post-George Floyd era of mandatory black-people worship not to inhale the pungent odors of institutional rot and decomposition. So, then, where to look to find the head of the rotting fish? (more…)

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Returning guest host Millennial Woes welcomed Aureus Press to the last broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download and online listening.

Topics discussed include:

00:01:10 What’s Aureus Press? (website, Telegram, Facebook, Twitter)
00:02:10 Twitter sucks (more…)

President Trump’s Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, enacted reforms to protect students accused of sexual misconduct. Those reforms have now been undone.

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This June, the Biden administration proposed sweeping reforms to current Title IX regulations that would jeopardize single-sex spaces in schools and would roll back due process protections for those accused of sexual misconduct. The proposed reforms generated over 349,000 public comments during a two-month window, of which more than 160,000 mysteriously disappeared due to an alleged “clerical error.” (more…)

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Jeremy and Chet are two brothers who live in the Midwest in the suburb of Whitown, USA. Chet is a few years older than Jeremy and graduated from college a few years before, while Jeremy is in his junior year at a college on the East Coast. (more…)

Some students in a Women’s Studies class at the University of Wisconsin, where an undergraduate degree costs approximately $110,000 for state residents, according to the university’s own website.

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Student loan forgiveness has been in the headlines quite a bit lately. One of the articles is “Warren urges Biden to cancel student loan debt before midterms” by CBS News. Although Pocahontas is a legislator and surely must be aware of the separation of powers doctrine, she curiously takes the position that the student loans may be erased if Resident Bidet decrees it so. (more…)

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Last month, The New York Times published an op-ed by Emma Camp, a student at the University of Virginia (UVA), describing the ideological conformity among her classmates and the social challenges faced by dissenting students. The article was swiftly met with mockery and derision among the blue-check set. (more…)