Robert Maranto

Academic Questions

May 8, 2023

Class Struggle: How the Media Became the Ivory Tower

Robert Maranto

Robert Maranto reviews Batya Ungar Sargon’s Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy.

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October 24, 2022

What You Can Do for the Counterrevolution

Robert Maranto

A review of "Counter Wokecraft: A Field Manual for Combatting the Woke in the University and Beyond," by Charles Pincourt, with James Lindsay, New Discourses, 2021, pp. 100, $12.49 softco......

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March 18, 2022

Suppressing Speech: Worse than McCarthyism

Robert Maranto

A review of "A Book Too Risky to Publish: Free Speech and Universities," by James R. Flynn, Academica Press, 2020, pp. 332, $29.95 paper; $28.45 kindle.

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June 7, 2021

Diversity Training is Unscientific, and Divisive

Robert Maranto and Craig Frisby

Diversity programs usually do not work, and they often result in negative unintended consequences that are far worse than the problems that such programs were originally designed to address.

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September 30, 2020

An Inconvenient Analysis: Title IX’s Shortcomings

Robert Maranto

A review of The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education, R. Shep Melnick, Brookings Institution Press, 2018, 326 pp., $35.99 paper.

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September 25, 2020

Plague Day

Robert Maranto

"The mayor tells us we have to go away / the bailout comes tomorrow, not today / unless we’re rich enough to pay to play / and then the government will find a way"

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September 3, 2019

Numbers from an Academic Conference (APSA 2018)

Robert Maranto

A reflection on numbers past and present. 

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June 6, 2019

Gay Marriage as Status Symbol

Robert Maranto

A review of From Tolerance to Equality: How Elites Brought America to Same Sex Marriage, by Darel E. Paul, Baylor University Press, 2018, 245 pp., $39.95 hardbound.

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