Frances Hasso is a professor in the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Department at Duke University. I have written about her before, here and here. You can probably guess, from the department she is in, her take on Israel. She hates the tiny embattled state now fighting a multi-front war, that in her view copies […]
Why Is Duke’s Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Department Spending So Much Time Maligning the Jewish State?
Mishana Garschi is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Duke University gender studies program. According to her very own web page, Garschi’s interests “include Black feminist theory, feminist theory, popular culture, and the politics of diversity and inclusion.” She liked a post so much that she reposted it on X: “having a phd and being a […]
The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke: An Introduction
I have already written here about Duke Professor Frances Hasso and her anti-Israel animus that has sunk ineluctably into outright antisemitism. But Hasso is only one part of a much bigger problem. It turns out that her entire department, the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, appears to be engaged in a multi-year orgy […]
Introducing Frances Hasso, Tenured and Untethered
Every American university has at least few of these creatures on its faculty. You know the type, the dreary type. These are the real haters of Israel, like Rashid Khalidi, Juan Cole, Hamid Dabashi, people who are wishin’ and hopin’ and thinkin’ and prayin’ that the Jewish state would disappear altogether, to be replaced by […]
The Graves of Academe (#756)
#1. Duke University, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies postdoc – Feminism and the Culture Wars The Duke University Program in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist (GSF) Studies invites applications for a residential postdoctoral associate focused on “Feminism and the Culture Wars” for the 2025-2026 academic year. Through research, teaching, and service, the associate will contribute to […]
Duke University: Pro-Hamas students walk out on Jerry Seinfeld commencement speech
If you can’t handle a speech from Jerry Seinfeld, your college has failed to prepare you for the real world. pic.twitter.com/YZJjFdjdV7 — Nick Adams (Alpha Male) (@NickAdamsinUSA) May 12, 2024 Is Jerry Seinfeld the prime minister of Israel? No. Does he have anything to do with Israeli policies? No. He is Jewish, however, and the […]
The Graves of Academe: Positions Available
(This is the third article in my “Graves of Academe” series. The first two are here and here.) What you read below is not made up. They are signs of the times. They tell of our decline and fall. As King Lear said, nothing will come of nothing. Positions Available: #1. “The Program in Literature at […]
Woman Who Broke Story of Racism Against Duke Volleyball Player Was Involved in Fake Race Accusation Before
New in PJ Media: By now, the story has gone all around the world, as such stories tend to do. As PJM’s Rick Moran noted when the story broke, it all started at “a women’s volleyball game played at BYU in Utah where a black Duke University player alleges that fans hurled racist taunts at her.” But […]
Duke Professor’s Distorted Lens into Israel/Palestinian Conflict
Israel exhibits a “colonial systematology about nativeness” in the treatment of online smartphone pictures of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, stated Duke University associate professor of anthropology Rebecca Stein during a Nov. 4 webinar. This presentation, at George Washington University’s Institute for Middle East Studies (IMES). of her new book, Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine, exposed her […]
Trump Administration to UNC and Duke: Quit Promoting Islam on Our Dime
My latest in PJ Media: Will the Trump Administration move against the radioactive wastelands of far-Left indoctrination and Islamic proselytizing that our nation’s colleges and universities have become? On Friday, it made a small, long overdue step in that direction: Associated Press reported that “the Trump administration is threatening to cut funding for a Middle […]