American national pride is in trouble, w/ only 58% now “extremely” or “very proud” to be American.
In a new post, I show the strongest predictor of pride is whether someone is “woke” or “anti-woke," w/ the “anti-woke” now 2x more likely than the “woke” to express strong pride.
NEW: a report from Vanderbilt and WashU just dropped, taking on the "state of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences," a big topic among critics of higher ed.
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Which schools have the most politically diverse faculty? There's more diversity at public schools in red states than anywhere else.
Read the report here: https://t.co/fUL72Y16te
A study of 30,000 faculty campaign donors at 55 universities finds "the avg ideology of faculty donors...is only slightly less left-leaning than some of the most left-wing members of the Senate, such as Bernie Sanders & Elizabeth Warren."
The SAT & ACT are strong predictors of college performance (far better than high school GPA).
Yet, many colleges eliminated them on the assumption they hurt diversity.
Not so. From the NYT: “Once we brought the test requirement back, we admitted our most diverse class ever.”
A 2023 survey asked what should be *banned* in order to "fight climate change."
More than two-thirds of elites & Ivy League grads favored banning gas stoves, gas-powered cars, air conditioning & non-essential air travel.
Less than one in four avg. voters favored any of these.
A majority (52%) of Americans would like to "abolish standardized tests, such as the SAT or ACT" for college admissions.
But there’s a massive partisan divide.
While only 40% of Republicans want to "abolish" standardized tests, 70% of Democrats do.
"In practice, then, colleges & universities are supplanting curriculum on U.S. government and American history with courses that emphasize identity, power, and inequality."
Source: https://t.co/CnnrkDKu8x
What do colleges require students to take to graduate in 2026?
In one study of 120 prominent schools, 0 require economics & only 18 require US government or American history.
By contrast, 61 required a DEI course for graduation.
A 2025 Cato Institute survey found vast generational differences in feelings about capitalism, socialism & communism.
Young people were ~2x more likely than seniors to have a favorable view of socialism & ~17x more likely than seniors to have a favorable view of communism.
Left-wing conspiracy theories about the Trump assassination attempt(s) should not be surprising.
A 2022 study of 37,000 Americans & 26,000 non-Americans found liberals are just as likely as conservatives to believe in conspiracy theories...they just believe in different ones.
It's not surprising that professors come from highly educated families. Yet the extent to which the professoriate comes from families w/ a PhD-holding mother or father is striking.
While <1% of Americans have a PhD, 22% of university faculty members have a parent with a Ph.D.
There is also wide variation across campuses. In 2024, while ~40% of UC Davis students said shoutdowns, blockades & violence can sometimes be acceptable to stop speech, only ~5% of students at BYU Provo did.
Read more here: https://t.co/cdEYGnkMyF
Students majoring in ethnic, gender & area studies are the most supportive of disruptive actions to stop campus speech (e.g. shouting down a speaker, blocking other students from attending & using violence).
The gap b/w these students & others has also been growing over time.
Truly abhorrent and unimaginable behavior today at the @FedSocUCLA event that hosted a @DHSgov lawyer. Leftist students repeatedly disrupted the event, yelled profanities, shouted, made their phones ping incessantly, and eventually stormed out to a rally that violated all time, place, and manner restrictions. These students can’t handle @FedSoc event about the law, but will remain students at @UCLA_Law and
eventually be admitted to the Bar. It is a damning indictment on higher education that students behave so despicably.
New @HdxAcademy study finds the % of faculty job ads requesting applicants to address DEI in their applications dropped by more than half, from 25.4% in 2024 to 11.0% in 2025.
Nevertheless, ~6% of job ads in states formally restricting DEI in hiring still request DEI materials.