April 2023

The Morgan Bettinger case is gaining national notoriety. After Reason magazine detailed the travesty of the University of Virginia student who was punished for using the words \”speed bumps\” in a way that militant leftist protesters construed as threatening, the Daily Mail has picked up the story. The Daily Mail does not add much new […]

Huge news from the Virginia Military Institute with implications for the University of Virginia….by James A. BaconThe Youngkin administration has just unloaded a HIMARS rocket attack on Virginia Military Institute\’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion program.Speaking Friday in a session of mandatory \”inclusive excellence training,\” Martin D. Brown, Youngkin\’s chief of Diversity, Opportunity & Inclusion, left

Huge news from the Virginia Military Institute with implications for the University of Virginia….by James A. BaconThe Youngkin administration has just unloaded a HIMARS rocket attack on Virginia Military Institute\’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion program.Speaking Friday in a session of mandatory \”inclusive excellence training,\” Martin D. Brown, Youngkin\’s chief of Diversity, Opportunity & Inclusion, left

by James A. BaconWhen Emma Camp was a student at the University of Virginia in 2020, she heard the tale of Morgan Bettinger, another UVa student, who was said to have approached left-wing protesters in downtown Charlottesville and threatened to make \”speed bumps\” of them.The story, says Camp, was repeatedly endlessly on social media —



Speaking to a packed house in the Minor Hall auditorium at the University of Virginia last night, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will traced the rise of the totalitarian movement on college campuses. Contemporary totalitarian thought, which arises from the conviction that human behavior is infinitely malleable and that all ills in society can be traced

by James A. BaconThe woke witch trials of the 21st century don\’t burn their victims at the stake, but they still do immense harm.We previously told the story of how Morgan Bettinger, a 4th-year student who ran afoul of the University of Virginia\’s social-justice warriors, was vilified on social media, investigated by university authorities, and

Register for the Livestream Debate, 1:30pm EST, Wed, May 3, 2023:“Protecting Academic Freedom at U.S. Universities: Do Proposed Policies in Florida Make Sense?”Many educational leaders have become acutely concerned that Academic Freedom and Free Expression are being abandoned at U.S. universities. In recent years, educational priorities seem to have shifted from researching and teaching “academic

Jeffrey Leopold, a McIntire School of Commerce assistant professor who was subjected to a Twitter firestorm two-and-a-half years ago, has resigned from his post mid-semester. No explanation has been given.The Jefferson Council was first alerted to Leopold\’s departure last week by the parent of a student in one of his classes. University of Virginia spokesman