“DEI Is Dead” at VMI

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...

How the Digital Rumor Mill Fed Incoherent Social-Justice Hysteria

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...

George Will Explains the Totalitarian Impulse

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...

UVa Is on a DEI Hiring Spree

The University of Virginia’s vice president for diversity, equity & inclusion told the New York Times that UVa has only 40 DEI employees — half the number counted by the Virginia Association of Scholars. We wonder if his count includes the positions...