• “Explore the unthinkable”: invite a speaker whose message makes you uneasy [Walter M. Kimbrough, Chronicle of Higher Education]
• “The Pseudo-Science of Microaggressions” [Althea Nagai, National Association of Scholars via George Leef, Martin Center]
• Imagine setting out to combat the influence of the Greeks and Romans in American life — by vandalizing college fraternities [Jillian Kay Melchior on University of Texas episode]
• Hereditary intelligentsia and self-actualizing graduate study: “Lessons from Mid-Century Soviet Higher Education” [Alex Usher via Tyler Cowen]
• Some resemblances between “get them off campus” campaigns against George Soros in Hungary, Koch brothers here [Alberto Mingardi]
• “Some who in private were sympathetic to Tuvel, felt compelled to join in the attacking mob.” [Kelly Oliver, Philosophical Salon] More on Rebecca Tuvel/Hypatia furor: Jesse Singal/New York, Daily Nous, Jason Brennan (“Personally, I’d say that failing to fully engage critical theory is a feature, not a bug, of the paper.”), commenter on Singal article (“Hypatia herself, the journal’s namesake, was murdered by a mob in the year 415.”).

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