Journalist – Historian – Speaker
Dominant Narrative: Conservative students on liberal campuses are ostracized and marginalized and it isn’t fair and there should be balance. Data: Conservative students at UW Madison are doing fine. Politically conservative students instead were more likely to report feeling safe, respected and like they belong than students holding other political views. Conservative students also were …
In my latest Pacific Standard essay, I talk about the ways that some right-wing schools enforce indoctrination and homogeneity, even as our free speech on campus discourse focuses on left-wing schools. In response to National Football League players protesting state violence against African Americans, the College of the Ozarks, a small, Christian liberal arts institution in …
Ever since “political correctness” jumped into mainstream public discourse as first a threat against higher education, then against free speech everywhere, and – with Trump’s campaign – a threat against the very security of our nation, I’ve been making one argument: Power matters. Mostly, it’s not a problem when marginalized people ask for others to …