As euphemisms go, ‘sex worker’ is right up there with ‘collateral damage,’ ‘alternative facts’ and having a ‘number two’ – such is the detachment the phrase has from the reality it masks. On the one hand, ‘sex worker’ conjures up fantasies of hot, high-end, happy Hollywood hookers a la Julie …
Read More »Black academic Cornel West hammers ‘spiritual rot’ of Harvard in fiery resignation letter
“How sad it is to see our beloved Harvard Divinity School in such decline and decay,” West wrote in a resignation letter from the Ivy League institution, penned in June but posted to his Twitter account on Tuesday. Continuing to air his grievances at the school, West claimed that the …
Read More »Academic paper reveals Hong Kong student protesters were paid to be guinea pigs in bizarre experiment that may have gone wrong
Secreted in the depths of academic journal American Economic Review’s June edition is an absolutely extraordinary research paper, revealing that a team of Western scholars conducted a somewhat peculiar study analyzing why students attended protests in Hong Kong – and that participants were paid to do so. The paper’s abstract …
Read More »Academic exposes how Facebook and Twitter emulate Nazi propaganda machinery… and sell war to Western citizens
Academic Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, professor in global thought and comparative philosophies at SOAS University, London, is the author of over 60 papers and six books on contemporary culture and politics. In his latest work ‘What is Iran?’ he sheds fresh light on the title’s ever-burning question, along with analysis of Tehran’s …
Read More »UK academic silenced by MSM reveals how Western news outlets ‘amplify and rationalize state-sanctioned war and violence’
As the article was literally about to go to press, the Conversation – which claims to offer “informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world” – put his groundbreaking work on hold, at the express request of the outlet’s executive editor. After some toing and froing, the Conversation …
Read More »Georgia & Ukraine launch ‘remarkable’ attack on academic freedom after Russian invited by Irish professor to talk about… Russia
Donnacha Ó Beacháin is an internationally-respected professor with extensive experience teaching students about politics in the countries that once formed the Soviet Union. He was targeted by two diplomats who claimed that his program, named ‘Russia and the post-Soviet space’, was spreading “disinformation and Russian propaganda narratives.” Georgia and Ukraine, …
Read More »Racist rhymes: Academic wants ‘Baa baa black sheep’ and ‘Jingle Bells’ replaced with songs of ‘acceptance and social justice’
Pollard lectures in music education at the University of Nevada-Reno. Like many in higher education, she’s embraced the doctrine of Critical Race Theory, a set of beliefs that sees the history of the US as a tale of “white supremacy,” and requires white people to apologize for their own “privilege” …
Read More »Academic intolerance on the rise, study finds, highlighting growth of wokeness in younger scholars
Purporting to be the first paper of its kind to “investigate authoritarianism and political discrimination in academia,” the study, conducted by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology’s Eric Kaufmann, seemed to support conservatives’ longstanding complaints that they and their political viewpoints face disproportionate levels of ideologically-motivated censorship. …
Read More »How academic groupthink is trying to silence a Harvard astrophysicist who claims an alien spacecraft visited our solar system
In October 2017, an unusually thin, elongated object was detected by astronomers. It was like nothing seen before and even accelerated as it left our solar system. It was named ‘Oumuamua, and its many abnormalities, such as its constantly fluctuating brightness, caused problems for scientists. Indeed, because it did not …
Read More »Scholarship in the age of wokeness: Top 10 ACADEMIC targets of cancel culture in 2020
Academics are supposed to be engaged in the disinterested pursuit of truth. And universities are meant to be places where you attack the argument, not the man. But in recent years, many scholars in the English-speaking world have found themselves embroiled in controversies just for expressing an unorthodox opinion or …
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