July 27, 2023
MTC: DEI Laws Are Meaningless Without Enforcement
Louis K. Bonham
At long last, some state legislatures have begun reacting to the “wokeness” epidemic that has consumed both K-12 and higher education. Unfortunately, many of these bills are likely doomed to accompli......
June 16, 2023
Article: NAS Commends Texas Ban on DEI Practices
National Association of Scholars
Texas Senate Bill 17 champions free speech and intellectual diversity in Texas’ public higher education system, by removing policies that forward DEI.
February 22, 2023
MTC: An Open Letter to Texas Governor Abbott on Illegal DEI Practices: Where’s the Beef?
Louis K. Bonham
Dear Gov. Abbott, After National Association of Scholars Senior Fellow John Sailer’s bombshell report in the Wall Street Journal documented the use of “diversity statements” as ideological hiring f......
December 5, 2022
MTC: The 2022 MTC Lysenko Award: And the Winner Is...
Louis K. Bonham
Fall is in the air, which means it’s time to award the annual Minding the Campus Trofim Lysenko Award for the Suppression of Academic Speech (a Lysenko Award, for short). As detailed in the inaugural......
October 27, 2022
MTC: Enforcing the Coming Affirmative Action Bans: A Modest Proposal
Louis K. Bonham
In the wake of the recent opinions in Dobbs, Bruen, Carson, West Virginia v. EPA, and Kennedy, there is no serious question that originalism is not only ascendant but firmly in control in the Supreme......
September 20, 2022
Article: Equal Protection for Me But Not for Thee
Marina Ziemnick
Thanks to the bold actions of NAS affiliate head Richard Lowery, the system of hiring discrimination that undergirds American higher education may be on the verge of collapse.
September 12, 2022
MTC: Lowery v. Texas A&M University System: The Beginning of the End of DEI Discrimination?
Louis K. Bonham
Anyone with even the slightest knowledge of the state of the American academy today knows that employment discrimination runs rampant on campus. Not the old-fashioned kind where women, blacks, Jews, C......
April 26, 2022
Article: A Multi-Million Dollar Learning Opportunity
Marina Ziemnick
The victory of Gibson's Bakery over Oberlin College shows that college administrators can be held accountable for violating the law in pursuit of their progressive agenda.
April 20, 2022
MTC: Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College: The Warning to Wokesters
Louis K. Bonham
Late last month, an Ohio appellate court affirmed the $31.2 million judgment in favor of Gibson’s Bakery and members of the Gibson family against Oberlin College and its former Dean of Students, Mered......
March 16, 2022
MTC: Another Hopeful Sign: Hiers v. Board of Regents
Louis K. Bonham
In my last piece, I covered the recent decision in Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School District, where the court declared that a new admissions process for a highly-regarded STEM-focused high sc......