Archive for April 2018

On the latest decision-making by the University of Wisconsin bureaucracy

My alma mater, UW-Madison, has been making some very unsettling choices lately. More on that in my latest blog post  “The user-centric university” in The New Criterion dispatches section.

Why chromophobia of #MeToo does not make any sense

  The #MeToo’ers got their aesthetic affiliation all wrong as they went for Puritanism—one of history’s archetypal patriarchies. In my latest contribution to The New Criterion, I discuss how the movement’s desire to disassociate itself from traditional trappings of femininity, including color, is incongruent with their professed embrace of the oppressed “other.”