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March 22, 2018March 22, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

MASS DEBATING – This is a brilliant move: The politics of race and gender have arrived at the University of Sydney’s oldest debating club, which this year will field teams …

Politics

March 13, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

FREEDOM OF SPEECH FOR ME, BUT NOT FOR THEE – If the university-educated young people are our future, our future looks gloomy. From a recently released survey of 3,000 American …

Life

March 12, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SHOULD UNHAPPY GRADUATES BE ABLE TO SUE UNIVERSITIES – This story, surprisingly, doesn’t involve the Bachelor of Feminist Interpretative Dance: Pok Wong, who also goes by the name Fiona Pok, …

Politics

Activists, supporters, and you – the Chrenk Manifesto

March 5, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Much of the left’s and the whole social justice warriorship’s political project is not at all about achieving equality as an end but merely as a half-way point in a …

Politics

February 27, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

PROFESSOR ACCUSED OF SEMITISM, DEFENDS HERSELF – The tragi-comedy in the letters section of the London Review of Books: There, the feminist American legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon can be found …

Politics

February 10, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

AUSTRALIA DENIAL – So many friends have tagged me in this story that I might as well share: This is Ashley Arnold, a 27-year-old resident of Idaho Falls, Idaho. She’s …

Politics

February 2, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS. THAT’S NOT HOW ANY OF IT WORKS – According to News.com.au, Rihanna shapes Australia’s foreign aid policy: This is what star power looks like. A tweet from …

Politics

November 30, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WE DON’T NEED NO EDUCATION – Many are called, fewer are chosen: Students are packing in their degrees at the highest levels in a decade, according to gloomy new Federal …

Politics

November 22, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

UNIVERSITIES GONE WILD – For all I know there might be a lot more to the story than the article reports, but as presented it’s pretty damning: Outspoken James Cook …

Politics

Right wing security tax

November 8, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

This is outrageous: University students are being told they will have to pay to hire security guards if they want to run events spruiking conservative ideals — including pro-coal ideas. Student …

Politics

Young people are f***ing morons

November 3, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Forty-four per cent of Millennials would to prefer to live in a socialist country, 7 per cent in a communist country and 7 per cent in a fascist one. Only …

Politics

Ten things we should be talking about instead of Same Sex Marriage

September 29, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It was with great lack of joy that I came back from five weeks in Europe to find out that the public debate in Australia remains exactly in the same …

Politics

July 11, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

HOW DO YOU SAY “GET F***ED” GRAMMATICALLY? – The University of Washington, Tacoma’s Writing Center now instructs students that expecting proper grammar from others perpetuates racism and “unjust language structures.” …

Politics

April 23, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

STIGMATISING INTROVERSION – According to one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world, you’re not shy, just racist: Students who avoid making eye contact with their peers …

Politics

April 22, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

KANGAROOS TRIGGER STUDENTS – I apologise on behalf of Australian fauna: Three students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison filed bias reports after taking a statistics test in the spring …

Politics

Surprise: Scumbag Scholars Who Sanctify Scumbag Stalin Also Sanctify Scumbag Assad

April 11, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Meet Jay Tharappel, a tutor in human rights (!) at the Sydney University. Jay, as even casual perusal of his Facebook page will show, is a communist fanboy, with a particular …

Politics

“Muslim teenager repeats #Blacklivesmatter 100 times on Stanford application and is accepted”

April 5, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I got into the arts/law degree at my university – nowhere near as prestigious as Stanford, I might superfluously add – based on my academic record from high school, or …

Politics

Never trust anyone under 30

March 9, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

When they were singing about the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, they didn’t mean the time of endless leaks. But that’s what they’re getting. Yesterday, following the “Vault 7” …

Politics

Hands up, don’t shake!

February 21, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Note: The below was written some 24 hours ago but couldn’t post for technical reasons. The story is not as current anymore, but the message sadly is. We’re bending over …

Politics

February 11, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

CONSENT IS A WESTERN CONCEPT – What would we do without Islamic Studies professors? Georgetown’s Jonathan Brown has recently delivered a lecture titled “Islam and the Problem of Slavery” at …