Victor Davis Hanson The Curriculum Universities rise or fall by the quality of their curricula, something impossible to ascertain by the titles of classes, only by the syllabus and the general reputation of the faculty for both teaching ability and scholarship. Two legacies of the 1960s student takeover of the universities and the surrender of […]
Victor Davis Hanson Faculty Erosion Over the last 50 years, faculty teaching loads have been lessened. Release time has increased. Monitoring of faculty productivity, especially post-tenure reviews, has been eroding and replaced by DEI exemptions. To pay for full professors—nine months at work, 3-4 classes a year, sabbaticals every 7 years, guaranteed lifetime tenure, no
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Victor Davis Hanson The Baby Boomer generation was brought up with the idea of the necessity of college. The idea was that a college degree ensured that you could stay in the middle class and obtain the broad education required by a consensual and self-governed society. But the argument for college is less persuasive now
Victor Davis Hanson Why do the Democrats, both the old and new Jacobins, libel Republican presidents as Hitlers, only to laud them in comparison to contemporary Republican presidents? 1) Every president who holds office and exercises power is slandered by the Left as Hitler, period. The point is to weaken his agenda, drive down his
Victor Davis Hanson There is a well-recognized Left-wing syndrome when it comes to current and emeriti Republican presidents. They despise them and equate them with Hitler. Then, once out of office, they rehabilitate them as sober, judicious, and “good ol’ ” Republicans—in contrast with the current Republican and new replacement “Hitler.” When Ronald Reagan was
Victor Davis Hanson 5) Do ideologues try to destroy the ancient system of governance and create new replacements designed to give them power that they could not otherwise obtain through elections? Determine the following: Which group, party, or cabal is clamoring to make the following radical changes, despite lacking almost no public support for such
“The biggest controversy right now is a recent Supreme Court decision handed down that says you cannot create racially gerrymandered districts for the purpose of empowering people on the basis of their race.” Share This
Victor Davis Hanson 4) Does the government punish or spy on citizens and journalists as a form of political harassment or in an effort to suppress information in the private sphere on partisan grounds? In 2012, the Obama Attorney General, Eric Holder, ordered taps on 20 phone lines of Associated Press reporters to monitor their