Articles and Opinions Archive
"The Brainwashing of Academia: How Ideological Homogenization Undermined Higher Education"
Foreword: In this essay I explore a deeply concerning transformation within American academia—one that has quietly shifted universities away from their core missions of objective inquiry and truth-seeking. Using the metaphor of academia as society’s intellectual mind, I argue that ideological conformity, initially motivated by sincere desires for equity and inclusion, has unintentionally become a form of institutional brainwashing. I delve into how this ideological rigidity now threatens scholarly integrity, fosters administrative excess, and undermines public trust. While frank and critical, this analysis is grounded in compassion, recognizing the good intentions of many involved. My goal is not merely to critique, but to illuminate a pathway back to genuine academic excellence, intellectual freedom, and public accountability....
"Student Guest Column: Atrophying Academia: Effects of AI Use in College"
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"Academic Freedom in 2025: Navigating Free Speech and Institutional Values"
Freedom of expression is a right granted in liberal democracies to every individual. Academic freedom is narrower in scope and application. It is limited to scholars who are engaged in research and teaching in universities and similar institutions of higher education. Academic freedom includes freedom of expression, freedom of inquiry, freedom of association, and freedom of publication. The term "academic freedom" has traditionally had two applications - to the freedom of the teacher and to that of the student....
"Opinion: Higher Education Caved to Trump’s Anti-DEI Crusade — It's Time for Academics to Fight Back"
In a stunning and cowardly capitulation, many of America’s colleges and universities have erased any mention of diversity, equity, and inclusion from their mission statements, department pages, and even their grant proposals. Once proud institutions — built on the idea that knowledge should serve the public good — now scramble to appease an authoritarian regime more interested in erasing history than learning from it....
NSF No More? When Science Funding Becomes a Political Weapon
In a move that has reverberated through American higher education, the federal government has frozen over $2.3 billion in research grants administered by the National Science Foundation (NSF). This decision has disrupted thousands of projects, stalled career-defining experiments, and triggered widespread alarm across the academic world....
"The Academy at a Crossroads: Free Speech, Political Interference, and the Battle for Higher Education"
Higher education in the United States is in crisis. Not just a crisis of funding, administration, or even ideological battles—though all of these are real and pressing—but a deeper existential crisis about what the university is and what it should be. In an era of heightened political polarization, campus censorship, and aggressive governmental intervention, the very mission of higher education—to pursue truth through free inquiry—hangs in the balance....
"Restoring Balance: Why Trump's Higher Education Policies Are Necessary Reforms"
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"States of Siege: State Universities Wage a Second War for Academic Independence"
Gainesville, Fla. — When Harvard’s labs fell silent last week after the White House froze $2.3 billion in federal research grants, the news dominated national headlines. It was the most dramatic skirmish yet in President Trump’s widening campaign to remake higher education by tying federal dollars to ideological demands and by investigating more than 50 universities—public and private—for alleged “race-exclusionary practices”. (NPR)...
Finding Success in an Increasingly Adjunctified World
In the early 21st century, the academic career ladder—once imagined as a sturdy staircase leading steadily toward tenure—has begun to resemble more of a climbing wall: the holds are still there, but they are scattered, and the route is rarely linear. Aspiring scholars who thrive in this new environment share three habits of mind: strategic breadth, entrepreneurial initiative, and values-driven resilience – with that in mind, here are some strategies you can use to navigate this increasingly challenging environment....