Postcolonial Meltdown on Campus

Before you applaud the creativity of these students, you should know that they are simply displaying what they were taught. Yes — they learned even “decolonizing performance” in the classroom.

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As an undergraduate at Yale, I took smug delight in reading through some of the more ridiculous course offerings of the Theater and Performance Studies Department. I had a hunch that other pro-Hamas campuses hosted similar departments with equally absurd courses, and I was not disappointed. I have curated some of the greatest hits for you below ...

We shouldn’t be surprised when what’s being taught by our universities has consequences in the real world. Education matters. It’s high time we subject the curricula being dished up by our country’s elite schools to scrutiny and make American universities serious again.

Ed Morrissey

What have students been taught? Outside the hard sciences and law schools, mainly performative nonsense. And that has begun infecting the hard sciences and the law of late as well, as we have discovered in places like UCLA, Harvard, Stanford, USC, and more.

We have been subsidizing this performative nonsense for far too long. It's time to end the federal gravy train for Academia. 

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