As ever with the free market, many Silicon Valley companies are now dropping their DEI depts, initiatives, and language. But education—from Kindergarten to college—is a whole different story. Free speech advocates Kenny Xu and Dr. Tabia Lee analyze in this Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreThree California economics professors (with the Hoover Institution and the Mises Institute). Three perspectives on cultivating better economists in the next generation—not students who just regurgitate models and, you know, progressive talking points. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreDr. Tabia Lee was ousted from De Anza College in 2023 for daring to disagree on critical DEI. But isn't the Diversity orthodoxy all about amplifying minoritized voices? Or is its concern for race a facade—for something more dangerous than mere lecture cancellations? An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreLocal political commentator Denise Kalm digs into Mountain View's upcoming University Basic Income (UBI) plan, and finds (not surprisingly) that previous cities' experiments give users a near-term pop but zero long-term improvement. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreLongtime SJ political-watcher Richard Davenport writes from NYC to note some parallels between local political wunderkinds Anthony Tordillos in SJ and NYC's Zohran Mamdani. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreMost higher ed institutions require a hefty applicant package: essays, recommendations, grades, interviews, etc. But University of Austin prof and statistician David Puelz thinks biased local colleges might want to rethink that—he lays out some compelling data, below, including what one metric is likely the most valuable for admissions. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreIf the cancel culture phenomenon is a snowball effect (starting with recruiting one coercive professor), how can we stop the snow in the first place? According to free speech advocates David Puelz and Elizabeth Weiss, it’ll take hiring centered on quality scholarship; high academic standards for students; and perhaps a smaller, tighter university. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreIn addition to getting their facts all wrong in their protests against Mayor Mahan's homelessness plans, local far-left groups extended a longstanding trend of invoking violent and bullying conventions in their misguided advocacy. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreWhen universities keep hiring ideological “mini-me’s” and pressure all other faculty to keep their mouths shut, discourse becomes toxic; faculty and their research grow out-of-touch; and students get unknowingly indoctrinated into the fold. An Opp Now exclusive. With SJSU prof emeritus Elizabeth Weiss and UATX prof David Puelz.
Read MoreIn the second part of our Opp Now exclusive conversation, UATX prof David Puelz and past Heterodox Academy fellow Elizabeth Weiss explain how “political correctness” and other ideological compulsions have long been around—but today’s climate against free speech is pretty unprecedented. Would Dr. Weiss have been kicked out of SJSU 20, even 10, years ago?
Read MoreSometime Opp Now contributor Susie Murillo writes in to note that equity is often a geographic phenomenon within cities—check out SJ's eastside/westside distinctions. She suggests that SJ's Office of Racial Equity could expand its brief to include solving geographic unfairness. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreA collection of SJ's far-left advocacy groups protested outside the family home of Mayor Mahan last weekend—complaining about the Mayor's homelessness programs. The groups' promotional flyer included violent imagery (crossing out Mahan's eyes—invoking a comic book convention to indicate someone's dead), and a parade of misinformed howlers that we fact check, below. An Opp Now exclusive.
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