Richard L. Cravatts

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Feb 25, 2023, 12:53 AM

UPenn Law’s Race Inquisitors Seek to Silence Amy Wax

When he wryly observed that “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act,” Orwell may well have had academia in mind, where challenging prevailing ideology can have a calamitous effect on one’s reputation and career—something...

Feb 22, 2023, 6:08 AM

The Delusion of Rent Control

George Santayana's admonition that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” was apparently lost on progressive Democrats in Congress, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) and Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D–N.Y.), who appealed to President Biden...

Dec 6, 2022, 9:26 PM

To the Editorial Board of UConn’s The Daily Campus

In yet another astounding display of journalistic malfeasance, on November 11th you published an editorial entitled, “‘Israel Discovery Trip’ whitewashes human rights abuses.” In it, you not only denounced the informational trip as “little more than a whitewashed tour of a state...

Nov 18, 2022, 6:51 PM

Academic Antisemites Who Don’t Like Being Called Out for What They Are

In yet another tendentious display of virtue-signaling from a group of self-professed “scholars specializing in Antisemitism, Holocaust Studies, Modern Jewish History and related fields,” 128 academics cautioned the UN against adopting a tool for addressing antisemitism. In a letter published...

Sep 23, 2022, 12:34 AM

‘Administrative Bloat’ and Biden’s College Loan Forgiveness

In a nod to his progressive base and what seems to be a naked tactic to buy the votes of young, educated future Democrats, President Biden seems to have made good on at least one of his campaign promises. In...

Aug 8, 2022, 11:35 PM

Jews Calling for the Destruction of Israel at CUNY

As if further confirmation were needed to designate the CUNY system as an egregious purveyor of anti-Israel activism—often replete with anti-Semitic expression—the university is being made to answer for its failure to protect Jewish students and faculty with a...

Jul 7, 2022, 8:39 PM

The ‘Social Justice Factory’ and Biden’s Title IX Regulations

In June, the Biden administration’s Department of Education rolled out new Title IX guidelines related to how schools must address sexual discrimination and widening the areas of personal interaction and who would be protected under the new rules. The new...

Jun 30, 2022, 6:39 AM

How Liberals Quash Housing Development by Getting Gentrification Wrong

Kristin Richardson Jordan, Harlem’s City Council member, seems to have put the final nail in the coffin of a 917-unit development, One45, proposed by developer Bruce Teitelbaum for a location on West 145th Street in New York. Even with the...

Jun 14, 2022, 7:04 PM

Compelling Diversity and Punishing Dissent

As more evidence that universities continue to be obsessed with race and are in thrall with the pursuit of racial “justice” and “equity,” the Board of Directors of California Community Colleges has decided that the system will now grade...

May 23, 2022, 7:09 AM

An Open Letter to Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and Your Fellow Travelers

On May 16th, you and some other members of The Squad, including Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, McCollum, and others, introduced a loathsome resolution, H. RES. 1123, which had as its purpose “Recognizing the Nakba and Palestinian refugees’ rights” and to...

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About Me

Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of the forthcoming book, The Slow Death of the University: How Radicalism, Israel Hatred, and Race Obsession are Destroying Academia.

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