Journalist – Historian – Speaker
Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, has cancelled his plans to speak at Wesleyan for commencement, and will be replaced by Anita Hill. This is the correct outcome. If somehow you missed it, I wrote about Snicket and the allegations of sexual harassment last week. Now the usual “free speech” folks are going to claim this …
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 …
There’s a lovely and thoughtful op-ed about “Sex at Wesleyan” written by an alumna with whom I must be roughly contemporary (I graduated in ’95). She articulates this: As much as you may read about the angry cries of “social justice warriors” in current news, today’s students discuss sexual assault in a completely new way. …