Neetu Chandak

3 days ago | city-journal.org | Charles Lehman |Ilya Shapiro |Robert Henderson |Neetu Chandak

Charles Fain Lehman, Ilya Shapiro, Rob Henderson, and Neetu Arnold discuss the anti-Israel attack in Boulder, Elon Musk and DOGE, and branded products. Charles Fain Lehman:  Welcome back to the City Journal Podcast. I’m your host, Charles Fain Lehman, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and senior editor of City Journal. Joining me on the panel this week are Ilya Shapiro, constitutional law guy at the Manhattan Institute…Ilya Shapiro: I think that’s my official title.

2 weeks ago | fairobserver.com | Neetu Chandak

The credibility of elite universities has fallen far, and not without reason. For decades, admissions offices singled out Asian-American applicants for unfairly high admissions standards while pretending to care about fairness and “equity.” Academic journals, blinded by ideology, fell victim to obvious hoax papers on topics such as rape culture in dog parks. Diversity, equity and inclusion statements became mandatory loyalty oaths to progressive causes during faculty hiring.

2 weeks ago | city-journal.org | Neetu Chandak

In districts across the country, school boards are quietly reshaping what students learn and how teachers get trained. This year, as Pennsylvania heads into a major school- board election cycle, Southern York County’s board offers a stark example of why these elections matter—and how a small group of citizens can change their schools for the better. Southern York’s school board recently dropped culturally relevant and sustaining education (CR-SE) requirements in teacher training.

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Neetu Chandak

But in its conflict with elite universities, the Trump administration’s urge to “move fast and break things,” often without regard for the law, threatens to blow the first real chance for substantive higher education reform in decades. Left-wing intolerance is what made universities incapable of adequately protecting basic principles of free inquiry and tolerating racial preferences for groups perceived as oppressed.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Neetu Chandak

11 hours agoAmerica’s College Towns Go From Boom to BustMACOMB, Ill.—At Western Illinois University, an empty dorm that once held 800 students is now a police training ground, where active-shooter drills have left behind overturned furniture, rubber-tipped bullets and paintball casings. Nearby dorms have been razed to weedy fields.