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  • Divorce Lawyer: Schools Should Teach More About Marriage

    Divorce Lawyer: Schools Should Teach More About Marriage0

    There are all kinds of suggestions these days about what children should learn in school. Computer coding. Mindfulness. Social Justice. The list goes on. But according to a prominent UK divorce lawyer – who worked on several high-profile celebrity divorces, including the Prince of Wales – there’s one thing that many schools should be teaching,

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  • Diversity vs. Academic Excellence

    Diversity vs. Academic Excellence0

    Recently, I took a call from a reporter looking for comments on the possibility of the University of Minnesota either disposing of the ACT as a standard of admission or diminishing its role dramatically. To be honest, I hadn’t been following any of the internal debate on the issue at the University or amongst its

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  • Diversity is Becoming a Form of Worship

    Diversity is Becoming a Form of Worship3

    Diversity is a good thing. We have to say that today, but the truth is I actually believe it. My personal experiences confirm the cliché. I grew up in a tiny blue-collar town in Wisconsin, but I was a bit of a vagabond in my 20s. Some cities I lived in were populous and diverse;

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  • Diversity Ideology Killed the University. Now, It’s Choking Out Civilization.

    Diversity Ideology Killed the University. Now, It’s Choking Out Civilization.0

    In 1903, during America’s darkest period of hate, W. E. B. Du Bois heartbreakingly affirmed his intellectual affinity with Western civilization. “I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas,” Du Bois wrote in “The Souls of Black Folk.” “I summon Aristotle and

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  • Diversity Fiction Meets Culture-Clashing Truth

    Diversity Fiction Meets Culture-Clashing Truth0

    Homeland Elegies: A Novel, by Ayad Akhtar (Little, Brown & Co.; 368 pp., $28.00). Mark Twain wrote in his 1897 travel book, Following the Equator: “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” That saying came in handy as I read this book, described on its jacket as

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  • Diversity Can Inhibit Learning and Cognitive Growth, Study Says

    Diversity Can Inhibit Learning and Cognitive Growth, Study Says0

    Diversity, like equality of opportunity, is one of those positively valued, ‘sacred cow’ concepts in higher education. Yes, some have criticized it for only encompassing racial, ethnic and gender identity, not ideological persuasion. Others have objected that diversity is a vehicle for brainwashing students with liberal values. Nevertheless, the concept has survived in almost every

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