The stunning cowardice of American academia

Guest Post by Alex Berenson

The same professors and administrators who make careers of defending “microaggressions” have failed to condemn Hamas’s deliberate slaughter of innocents, including Americans

On Saturday, as Hamas terrorists rampaged across Israeli towns, Vanderbilt University issued a statement condemning their atrocities.

I’m kidding, people! Vanderbilt did nothing of the sort. Instead, its chancellor wrote:

The deeply layered and nuanced complexity of today’s incidents reminds us that we must denounce violence, hate and prejudice in all forms…

“The deeply layered and nuanced complexity of today’s incidents?”

Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier offered those words at 7:04 p.m. Saturday in Nashville, or 3 a.m. Sunday in Israel. At that moment, Hamas’s fighters were still slaughtering defenseless civilians.

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Despicable Behavior of Today’s Academicians

Guest Post by Walter E. Williams

Despicable Behavior of Today's Academicians

The Michigan State University administration pressured professor Stephen Hsu to resign from his position as vice president of research and innovation because he touted research that found police are not more likely to shoot black Americans. The study found: “The race of a police officer did not predict the race of the citizen shot. In other words, black officers were just as likely to shoot black citizens as white officers were.” For political reasons, the authors of the study sought its retraction.

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