Not Gilly Sullivan’s Alumni Association Anymore

by James A. BaconAiming to address the lamentable decline in state/local news coverage, States Newsroom supports local news operations in 29 states, including Virginia. As Jim Sherlock detailed here, the nonprofit organization was launched in 2019 by the...

A Reminder of Why UVa Needs the Jefferson Council…

Hosted by UVa’s Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:Here are some other suggestions for the Division of DEI:Tim Scott, U.S. Senator from South CarolinaCandace Owens, author and activistBen Carson, former Secretary of Housing and Urban DevelopmentJohn,...

Virginia Association of Scholars Readings, Week of Oct. 3

Quote from “The Daily Sceptic:”  “It is a fact often noted that when social scientists get involved, meaningless waffle has a tendency to surface.”Introduction to The Untold Story of Racial Classification in the U.S. Haidt Quits Academic...

AFSA Spotlight: Week of 10/7/2022

Weekly highlights from our friends at the Alumni Free Speech Alliance:Stanford Alumni Free Speech Group joined AFSA: https://www.stanfordalumnifreespeech.orgAFSA board member Lauren Noble wrote an article about Yale’s free speech...

The Shockley-Goldsby Debate: The Rest of the Story

by James A. BaconIn August The Cavalier Daily ignited a furor over Bert Ellis, a conservative businessman whom Governor Glenn Youngkin appointed to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors. In a lengthy article, student newspaper detailed Ellis’ role, as a...

The War on Virginia’s History

by Scott S. Powell and Ann McLeanThe United States is under a cultural and ideological attack that threatens its continuity and survival more than at any previous time in the 239-year history of the nation. And since the leaders of this attack think strategically, it...

Bureaucracy Watch: UVa vs. GMU

In a presentation to its Board of Visitors, administrators at George Mason University showed a graph (seen above) comparing the number of employees per student at Virginia’s six public research universities. GMU shared with Old Dominion University the...

TJC Must Reads

The Impious Attack on Thomas Jefferson / The American ConservativeSome UVa students seem to agree with the “United the Right” marchers that Thomas Jefferson is significant only inasmuch as he supported white supremacy. Inside Student Activists’ Cancel...

Virginia Association of Scholars Readings, Week of Sept. 26

MIT moves forward with ‘freedom of expression’ statement | The College FixCampus Reform | A college professor is challenging the politicization of K-12 educationSouth Dakota Could Pass America’s Best History Curriculum (thefederalist.com)New website allows...