The Jefferson Council has heard from a tenured University of Virginia professor who has been required to submit a statement detailing his contributions to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) in his teaching, research and service. In response, he has composed the...
by James C. SherlockUVA has forged yet another academic/political merger and named it, with characteristic modesty, the Karsh (major donors) “Institute of Democracy”.To those who say the university has more “institutes” and “centers” than bricks, I...
by James A. BaconHere is what happens when The New York Times imposes its national narrative upon a Virginia story. We are afflicted with articles with headlines like this: “Top Jan. 6 Investigator Fired From Post at the University of...
by James A. BaconAttorney General Jason S. Miyares has fired the university counsels of the University of Virginia and George Mason University: Tim Heaphy at UVa and Brian Walther at GMU.I have no inside knowledge about why Miyares took these actions, but they are, I...
One of my earliest memories is sitting with my mother as a pre-kindergartener watching the McCarthy hearings in the spring of 1954. Television was a new medium for most American households and the bombastic anti-communist antics of the junior senator from Wisconsin...
