In the wake of a student hunger strike to protest the weakness of multicultural offerings in the campus’s core curriculum, the university is dedicating $50 million to the creation of major culture classes that can count toward core credit.
Its new director, a professor of Western civilization, Roosevelt Montas, says he “embodies diversity.” Auspiciously, he is also portrayed as one of the Core’s most fervent defenders.
“I don’t represent the tradition of dead white males that the Core is associated with,” Montas states. “I think it helps to undo or challenge the idea that this is a white curriculum.”
This is reassuring, as long as students are in fact steeped in the Western canon. Even greatly improved courses on non-Western cultures cannot make up for such a grounding.
Recommended
Hillary Clinton Claims If Trump Is Acquitted It's 'Because The Jury Includes His Co-Conspirators'
The Senate is likely to fall short of the two-thirds vote needed to convict Trump.
Biden Administration Backs Bill That Would Force Cops to Stop Women in the Street for No Reason
The only way to have a non-disparate impact on men is to drastically increase the number of stops of women.
Democrats Squander Their Impeachment-Trial Moment
Where were the details of Trump’s actions while the riot raged? Where was the evidence to support their specific charge of incitement?
It’s a Blacklist, Pure and Simple
Today’s cancel culture harkens back to the excesses of the McCarthy era.
Kamala Harris Disputes Dr. Fauci, Insists Biden Administration Is 'Starting from Scratch' on Coronavirus
Kamala Harris is the biggest liability of the Biden administration because she lies, obviously and clumsily, even when she doesn’t need to lie.
The Times Corrects the Record on Officer Sicknick’s Death, Sort Of
Though the question remains unanswered: What really happened to him?
The Latest
The George Floyd Murder Trial: A Charging Nightmare
With the Derek Chauvin trial imminent, complications abound.
Biden Marks Selma Anniversary with Executive Order to Expand Voting Access
The president has signed the order as Congressional Democrats push for the passage of H.R. 1, a sweeping voting-rights package.
Manchin Defends COVID Relief Bill: Republicans Had ‘Tremendous Amount of Input’
The stimulus package passed in the Senate without a single GOP vote.
Two More Women Accuse Cuomo of Sexual Misconduct: Reports
There are now a total of five women on the record who claim the governor acted inappropriately with them.
The Civil War of Wishful Thinking
What does it say about America that the dominant political fantasy of our time is one of violent conflict between our two partisan tribes?
What China Really Wants: A New World Order
Translated speeches from a leading Beijing figure pull back the veil on their plans to ‘buy out the U.S.’