Seth Forman

Academic Questions

April 24, 2024

The Issue at a Glance

Seth Forman

Preview articles in this issue with pieces by J. Scott Turner, Nathalie Gontier, Amelia Lewis, James A. Shapiro, and others.

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July 17, 2023

The Issue at a Glance

Carol Iannone and Seth Forman

The issue at a glance for Summer 2023.

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May 8, 2023

Liberal, Jewish, Anti-Woke

Seth Forman

Seth Forman reviews David L. Bernstein’s Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews

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October 24, 2022

Defining White Supremacy Up . . . and Academic Freedom Down

Seth Forman

An attack on three acclaimed scholars by two progressive authors reveals a broader effort to marginalize liberal values, including academic freedom, which the authors contend are crucial components of......

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July 22, 2022

Has America Paid Its Racial Debts?

Seth Forman

A review of "What Do White Americans Owe Black People: Racial Justice in the Age of Post-Oppression," Jason D. Hill, Emancipation Books, 2021, pp. 234, $21.49 hardcover.

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March 18, 2022

John McWhorter Takes a Mulligan

Seth Forman

A review of "Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America," by John McWhorter, Portfolio/Penguin, 2021, pp. 201, $18.01 hardcover.

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August 23, 2021

A Conservative Prof. Sees the Enemy . . . And It Is Us!

Seth Forman

A conservative professor’s defense of the university as a place where “political ideas can be openly debated” is contravened by a massive new study on academic freedom. Review of......

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September 30, 2020

Online Learning and Higher Ed’s Dark Secret

Seth Forman

As higher education moves more of its courses online in response to a global pandemic, it will become obvious that actual course content is not what students, parents, and employers are seeking from c......

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