An investigation into Federal Reserve governor Lisa D. Cook’s academic record raises questions. Cook is one of the world's most powerful economists. She taught economics at Harvard University and Michigan State University and served on the Obama administration's Council of Economic Advisers before being appointed, in 2022, to the Federal ...

Major institutions have started rolling back their diversity bureaucracies. Last year, conservatives began taking action against the "diversity, equity, and inclusion" bureaucracy. The Manhattan Institute released a model policy to abolish DEI, exposed abuses in public universities, and advised political leaders, most notably Florida governor ...

How left-wing NGOs mobilize private and public assets to silence critics. The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project recently procured a cache of government documents that expose a disturbing pattern: left-wing NGOs seeking to mobilize the state against political opponents on specious accusations of "violent extremism." According to the ...

The embattled Harvard president’s dissertation raises troubling questions. Harvard president Claudine Gay has problems. Touted as the first black woman to run the nation's most prestigious university, she assumed leadership with high expectations, but her tenure, which began this summer, has been mired in scandal. As dean and then as ...

Conservatives must learn the lessons of 2020—and prepare. The resurgence of public protests in support of Hamas has revealed a disturbing truth: the left-wing rioting following George Floyd's death in 2020 was not an anomaly, but a tactic that activists can repurpose for any cause. Whether by coincidence or design, these recent outbursts could ...

Americans must become confident again that their government will enforce the law, without fear or favor. The summer of 2020 resembled a political revolution. Militants associated with Black Lives Matter and Antifa led the most destructive riots in American history. Radicals burned down city blocks, perpetrated acts of violence, and ...

How conservatives can restrain left-wing corporate culture. Conservatives have recently scored surprise victories against left-wing corporate culture, with successful pressure campaigns against a trio of blue-chip companies–Disney, Target, and Bud Light–that have revealed the potential of a culture-war tactic once considered the ...

Left-wing radicals have long supported the violent “decolonization” of Israel. For years, left-wing intellectuals have treated "intersectionality" as an inevitability. The social theory, which holds that all oppressed peoples must join together to overthrow their common oppressor, has been an essential strategy of the Left. There is some truth ...

The Biden administration comes after New College and its conservative reforms, alleging specious civil rights violations. Last week, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into New College of Florida, where I serve as a trustee, regarding alleged "disability discrimination." The investigation was prompted ...

The case against right-wing racialism.In recent years, I have devoted considerable time to exposing the radical Left's politics of "whiteness," which posits that white identity, culture, and power are irredeemably oppressive and must be "abolished" in favor of alternative modes of being. "Whiteness" represents the metaphysical essence of ...

Lawmakers have every right to defund ideologically captured disciplines in public universities. For decades, conservatives have lamented the rise of activist academic departments that push left-wing ideology in the guise of dispassionate scholarship. In 1989, Claremont McKenna scholar Harry Jaffa described the process of his university ...

At Florida International University, DEI bureaucrats have made political activism the center of academic life. FIU, a public institution, has adopted a radical "diversity, equity, and inclusion" program that condemns the United States as a system of "white supremacy," segregates scholarships and student programs by race, and trains students ...

A new counterculture with the potential to disrupt left-wing institutional capture. The idea of a conservative counterculture might seem like an oxymoron. The term itself has been colored by the 1960s, when left-wing intellectuals, revolutionaries, and artists captured the spirit of revolt against a suptposedly homogenous, oppressive, ...

An interview with Arizona governor Doug Ducey on the state’s first-of-its-kind universal school-choice legislation. Arizona governor Doug Ducey is brimming with optimism. The businessman-turned-politician has spent the past eight years campaigning for universal school choice–and he has finally achieved it. Today, the governor is hosting ...

Parents have the right to know what public schools are teaching their children. The debate over America's public schools, which began in 2020 with Covid-19-related closures and continued in 2021 with the backlash against critical race theory, has shifted to a third phase: curriculum transparency. Last December, my Manhattan Institute ...

Yesterday, I accompanied Florida governor Ron DeSantis on an early-morning flight from Tallahassee to The Villages retirement community, where he was scheduled to deliver a policy address on critical race theory. During the flight, DeSantis reviewed talking points for his speech, edited communications materials, and, after the plane touched ...

AT&T Corporation has created a racial reeducation program that promotes the idea that "American racism is a uniquely white trait" and boosts left-wing causes such as "reparations," "defund police," and "trans activism." I have obtained a cache of internal documents about the company's initiative, called Listen Understand Act, which is based on ...