Category: Culture wars
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Advocacy and Activism for Teachers
The Virginia Education Association emphasizes radicalism and resistance over reading and math. by Victoria Manning The Virginia Education Association (VEA), the state arm of the National Education Association, has no interest in educating your children. Instead, they want to push “advocacy and activism for educators”—a goal they stated explicitly and repeatedly throughout their November 2025…
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In a Toxic Culture, Defining What It Means to Be a Man
My favorite living sociologist (Edward Banfield passed away in 1999), the University of Virginia’s Brad Wilcox, is perhaps the leading conservative scholar on the sociology of the U.S. family. This tweet links to his review of Scott Galloway’s book, “Notes on Being a Man” in the Wall Street Journal. — JAB
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UVA’s President Was Right to Resign
“Former university head Jim Ryan presided over a potential pattern of civil-rights violations, writes John D. Sailer at the Manhattan Institute — highlighting a fact that has largely been ignored by state Senate leaders intent upon asserting control over the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors. From his article in the City Journal: Rather than…
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Governance Breakdown in Virginia Higher Ed
by Gordon C. Morse Here’s the thing to sort out about Virginia’s colleges and universities: These schools achieved widespread acclaim on the basis of a rather specific, long-standing governing arrangement. Today most everyone looks upon Virginia higher education with pride and satisfaction. It works for us; it has for a long time. So why have…
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The New American Museum: Judge, Jury and Executioner
by Patricia N. Saffran and Ann McLean American museums used to have art exhibitions that dignified the human spirit. By contrast, today’s museums promote the wonton destruction and desecration of great works of art, mainly targeting the South, as in the Monuments Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Brick in Los Angeles. Currently,…
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Outrage Over Reason at UVA Law
“Are we teaching people to think or just teaching them to judge?” At a recent Federalist Society panel discussion, UVA Law professor Xiao Wang described the response from students and colleagues to his role in winning a unanimous ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court in Ames vs. Ohio Youth Services. The ruling ended the “heightened…
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Also Worth Reading…
The first university has admitted to race-based hiringby Scott Douglas Gerber in The Hill Money quote: After Students for Fair Admissions was decided, [Interim President Paul Mahoney] wrote, the university had received new guidance that “commits us to cease using race as a criterion for employment.” Of course, the university cannot “cease” using race in employment…
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Pragmatic or Partisan?
Will Abigail Spanberger fight for DEI or for intellectual diversity in her dealings with UVA? by Joel Gardner Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger states that she wants to have an administration that reflects pragmatism rather than partisanship. But her Democrat colleagues in the state senate have already exhibited a degree of partisanship vis-à-vis the University of Virginia…
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Tomorrow’s Election and Immaturity on the Left
by Aurelius Grimm The electoral stakes in Virginia this year are not existential in the sense of national survival. No one is claiming the Commonwealth is about to fall off the map. But the stakes are extraordinarily significant for one overriding reason: there is no moderating force left on the left. When Democrats held total…
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No Kings: Aging Hippies with a Bloodlust
by Kerry Dougherty Like most normal Americans I was too busy on Saturday to even notice the No Kings protests. I was doing what many of us do on Saturdays in the fall: Watching college football. In fact, I’d forgotten all about the protests until I checked Facebook Sunday night and saw that several of…
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UVa to Trump: No Thanks
by Dick Hall-Sizemore The University of Virginia has declined to sign the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” proposed by the Trump administration. In exchange for agreeing to a long list of terms, institutions signing the contract were offered “allowance for increased overhead payments where feasible, substantial and meaningful federal grants, and other federal…
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Who Owns the Statues?
And who controls their fates? by Patricia N. Saffran and Ann McLean LA’s Monuments Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, which opens this month, is being funded to desecrate figures from American history. As a result, culture battles are heating up over whether or not to send magnificent Confederate Beaux Arts monuments to Los Angeles.…
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Parental Involvement an Afterthought in Fairfax County Public School Prayer Rooms
by Stephanie Lundquist-AroraRepublished with permission from IWFeatures On September 8, during the Religious Liberty Commission’s hearing at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump announced upcoming guidance from the Department of Education regarding prayer in public schools. He said, “I am pleased to announce this morning that the Department of Education will…
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Support Anti-Fascism by Burning the Flag of the Country that Defeated Fascism!
by Tom Neale Many of you are no doubt unaware of a UVA Law student group called “Friends Against Fascism.” They are not an officially sponsored UVA CIO student organization. As you see in their flier, they sponsored a tailgate October 3rd ostensibly condemning fascism in America. The capital letters in the title spell out…