Looking a Little More Deeply into C.C. Little
I’ve been both pleased and concerned to see the recent attention to Clarence Cook Little, president of the University of Michigan from 1924 to 1929. Pleased, because while in my own research I have...
View ArticleC.C. Little, Eugenics, and the Calvinism of Wellness
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of...
View ArticleRefuting Charles Murray
Over the past several years, universities have sought to maintain campus environments that support free speech and diverse dialogue while keeping concerns about student safety and safeguarding the...
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How to Build a People’s University
By Emily Price, Kate Silbert, and Gregory Parker If you visited the bicentennial exhibit Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University, you had the chance to stand behind the actual...
View ArticleFailing Flint: Lessons from the Water Crisis
When we turn on our faucets, most of us take-for-granted that the water flowing from the pipes will be safe for consumption. The residents of Flint, an impoverished, heavily black community only an...
View ArticleCrisis Democracy: Moral Struggle in American Politics
President Mark Schlissel and the UM Board of Regents are moving forward with neo-Nazi provocateur Richard Spencer’s request for campus space to host a speaking event. In a communication to the student...
View ArticleThe Refugee
Who is a refugee? A person of concern? An expellee? A stateless person? A migrant? A displaced person? The terminology is confusing at best, and perhaps deliberately so, for it obscures the acute state...
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Classics and the Alt-Right: Historicizing Visual Rhetorics of White Supremacy
On September 26, 2016, a white supremacist group calling itself “Identity Evropa” (@IdentityEvropa) used Twitter to announce a new campaign called #ProjectSiege. The campaign would target college...
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“It’s Not OK to be a Nazi”: In Search of Counter-Narratives as an...
In late January and early February, timed no doubt to coincide with the celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the start of Black History month, we began to hear internet-based, anticipatory...
View ArticleLimits on the Limited Public Forum
Over the past several months, the University of Michigan has been squarely confronted with how to balance free speech with campus safety concerns and an inclusive campus environment. This post will...
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