Cover Letter for Can a Donor Revolt Save American Universities

To Our Readers:  In my search for reliable reporting on higher education, I have largely abandoned the main street press and current broadcasting outlets.  More than a year ago I subscribed to The Free Press, published on Substack and founded by a New York Times newsroomrefugee, Bari Weiss.  As a subscriber I have the right to share…

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Is Ideological Indoctrination Trumping Academic Integrity?

These pages recently reported some initial thoughts on growing disclosures of questionable behavior by Boston University Professor Ibram X. Kendi’s management of a “Center for Antiracist Research” there.  For additional perspective on this matter, we are sharing with you today a longish, but we believe worthwhile, extract from a recent podcast of The Glenn Show.  The…

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Lessons from Ibram X. Kendi

News broke last week that Ibram X. Kendi—the author of “How to Be an Antiracist”—was being investigated by Boston University for fraud and mismanagement of the $43 million Center for Antiracist Research which he led there. Kendi (originally known as Henry Rogers) gained prominence among academics for his advocacy of Critical Race Theory and its…

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A Little Rebellion Now and Then Is a Good Thing

Those are the words of Thomas Jefferson who—along with George Washington and the other Founding Fathers—were rebels. Not rebels in the sense of James Dean or the kids from The Breakfast Club.  They were the kind of men who put it all on the line—their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.  If captured by the…

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Response to the Rector’s Washington and Lee Community Letter

Rector McAlevey and the Board of Trustees issued a statement Friday denying that they are erasing history on the campus of W&L. Yet their message rings hollow.  They are saying in effect: “We’re not erasing history.  We’re just whitewashing it.”  They have literally whitewashed Lee Chapel. They promise to preserve W&L history in a future museum…

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To the PC Police: Leave America’s Pets Alone

Now they’re coming after Lee’s horse. by GARLAND S. TUCKER III THE NATION’S PULSE Statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee astride his horse, Traveller, in Gettysburg (MGS/Shutterstock) Americans have a longstanding love affair with their pets. Polls by Gallup and Pew Research consistently show that a majority of Americans have pets and consider the pets family members. Not surprisingly, pets…

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Cover Letter for Robert E. Lee, the Man For These Hard Times

We live in tumultuous times.  Many say that America is in the midst of a culture war, which sounds hyperbolic or abstract to a lot of people. It is not so abstract now that it has come to Lexington.  We are experiencing firsthand the impact of “progressivism” on the campus of W&L with the recent,…

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How Do You Teach History After It Has Been Erased

More than a month has passed since Traveller’s plaques were removed from campus at W&L.  His grave marker outside Lee Chapel has now been replaced with a watered-down version removing any reference to Robert E. Lee—who gave Traveller his relevance—or the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, whose history (like Lee’s) has…

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HILL: Washington and Lee Canceled…a horse?

Frank Hill, Opinion NORTH STATE JOURNAL A century from today, future historians may look back at a single incident and wonder if it was not one of the most absurd acts in American history ― assuming, of course, the USA survives until 2123 and anyone cares about it any longer. Washington and Lee University, better known…

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Dudley to R.E. Lee: “____you and the horse you rode in on!”

President Dudley is hell-bent on eliminating all references to Robert E. Lee from the campus of W&L.  And now that Lee has been almost completely erased, Dudley is going after Traveller.  That’s right.  We’re not exaggerating!  Robert E. Lee’s beloved equestrian companion, who served with Lee through some of our nation’s most historic battles, and…

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