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The Perverse Microeconomics of the American University
By Michael HochbergEven in STEM fields, the forces that shape decision-making for students, faculty, and administrators push them towards academic mediocrity and leftist politics.
Academia
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The Future of Universities Must Be Built on Firm Values
By Daniel DiermeierAnd thoughtful, respectful dialogue must be one of them.
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How Jewish Studies Became a Tool of Adversarial Culture
By Ruth R. WisseRather than highlighting Jewish contribution, the field now aims to show Jews as victims, socialists, aberrant, or “queer.”
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Watch Andrew Koss and David N. Myers Discuss Whether Jewish Studies Has Turned against the Jews
By Andrew Koss, Jonathan SilverA Mosaic editor and a Jewish studies professor discuss if and how Jewish studies has lost its way, and whether it can recover.
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Jewish Studies against the Jews
By Andrew KossAs America's universities catch fire and its Jewish students grow more fearful, the field most likely to have something to say has remained silent—or worse. How did it go wrong?
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What Will Come of Jewish Education When Educators Have Ceded Their Authority?
By Eric CohenAmerican civilization seems to be undergoing a cultural crisis. What does this mean for the purpose and prospects of Jewish schools?
Observation ·
Even In a Pandemic, Columbia Students Promote BDS
By Tamara BerensThey can’t vote in person right now, but that’s not stopping undergraduates at one of the world’s most prestigious universities from trying to pass a boycott of Israel.
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Leadership; or, Some Specific Strengths and General Failures of the American Jewish Fighting Spirit
By Ruth R. WisseFrom academia to philanthropy to journalism, my experience with Jewish leadership has been by turns discouraging and inspiring.
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Perseverance; or, My Fight to Study, and to Teach, Yiddish Literature
By Ruth R. WisseIn the late 1960s, appointments in Jewish studies were springing up in tandem with the “adversarial culture.” But we intended to strengthen the universities, not to trash them.
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With the Death of Bernard Lewis, the Age of Academic Giants Has Come to an End
By Michael DoranProfessional study of Middle East history now belongs to incompetents and political agitators.
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How BDS Is Undermining Academic Freedom
By Jonathan MarksIn pursuit of openly political ends, some professors risk destroying the principles and safeguards that for over a century have protected the freedom of their colleagues.
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Deeper Reasons for the Bias in Biblical Studies
By Jon D. LevensonThere is a liberal slant in biblical studies, but it has an older and more persistent source than merely the general liberalism or leftism of today’s academy.
Observation ·
“Gaza = Auschwitz”
By Martin KramerHolocaust inversion—the claim that Israelis are the new Nazis and Palestinians the new Jews—has come to the American university campus.
