Michael Johns gave the following speech, “Trumpism Can Make America Great Again,” at the Cornell Political Union on February 14, 2017. He makes the case for President Trump’s conservative, nationalist and populist insurgency against established political elites of both parties. Unfortunately, the venue was invite-only as the University demanded thousands in security fees from the...
Keeping up with the political left is becoming exhausting these days. On the one hand, Hillary Clinton recently said having taco trucks on every street corner “sounds absolutely delicious.” The mainstream media praised her awkward attempt at a joke and dig directed at a no-name Trump surrogate, and she didn’t come under fire from the...
During last week’s Student Assembly (SA) meeting, student representatives voted unanimously to change the designation of Christopher Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day on Cornell calendars. The decision came after a discussion over the ethical implications of the day’s name and celebration despite the many terrible deeds Christopher Columbus, and the subsequent explorers, did unto...
The Cornell Sun reported that an email sent to the Cornell Law School student listserv on Monday by the Cornell Black Law Student Association (BLSA) contained an “offensive image.” The image in question was a “meme captioned ‘ABBA REE I CAN FRYYY’ accompanied a photo of an Asian man singing,” according to the Sun. A...
You can’t make this stuff up. A recent job posting by Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences indicates the college is “seeking to hire a tenure-track assistant professor in some area of the humanities or qualitative social sciences.” Is this what Ezra Cornell really meant by “any person, any study”? I think not, and I...
This past week, the New York Slimes published an op-ed by Annie Murphy Paul about the inherently discriminatory aspects of the paradigm of the American university lecture experience. It is passages like this one that really make a white male like myself feel the need to check my privilege: “Yet a growing body of evidence...
“It is no longer cool to be politically correct in America.” So begins an exceptionally banal defense of censorship political correctness courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun columnist Emily Hardin ’16, which goes on to sing praises of PC despite acknowledging all the detrimental effects it has on free speech and the development and exchange of...
Straight from Brown University’s student newspaper The Brown Daily Herald is a directive from the Ministry of Truth. Opinion columnist Nicholas Asker ’17 published a piece on Tuesday titled “Universities shouldn’t speak freely” arguing that the cancellation of “American Sniper” at the University of Michigan last week was “perfectly consistent with freedom of expression.” Asker also compared...
In the University of Michigan’s most recent effort to avoid hurt feelings, university administrators canceled an on-campus screening of the critically acclaimed movie “American Sniper” after a bevy of student complaints. The university claimed that the film’s “content was harmful,” and that it “made students feel unsafe and unwelcome” due to the film’s perceived negative portrayal...
A research paper published earlier this year is making headlines for claiming political correctness, which is usually associated with censorship, promotes creativity in mixed-sex workplace groups. The paper, entitled “Creativity from Constraint? How Political Correctness Influences Creativity in Mixed-Sex Work Groups,” was authored by prominent Cornell Industrial and Labor Relations professor Jack Goncalo and three other...