Steve McGuire
@sfmcguire79
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Paul & Karen Levy Fellow in Campus Freedom @goACTA. Writings in @WSJ, @nypost, @Newsweek, @FoxNews, @RCPolitics, etc. Opinions are my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
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Joined April 2019
“I don’t like that you’re hosting this Tibetan speaker; you might want to consider doing something about that.” We talked with FIRE Senior Scholar Sarah McLaughlin about her new book examining how foreign governments such as China and Qatar censor speech on American campuses:
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Northwestern to pay $75M in federal civil-rights deal after antisemitism probes https://t.co/uCll7pawmr
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This made me admit, for the first time, sth sad: Hypocritically cultish forms of BDS—the kind that cite 🇮🇱-critical reports from 🇮🇱, but forbid delivering an 🇮🇱-critical lecture in 🇮🇱—aren’t just a wing in the US pro-🇵🇸 movement, but its dominant force. I don’t follow cults.🧵
By speaking earlier this week at Tel Aviv University, I made a serious mistake. In the past, when formulating my views about Israel-Palestine, I’ve sought out Palestinian friends and interlocutors and listened carefully to their views. In this case, I did not. I really wanted
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In 2016, I was teaching at Columbia and gave a grad student a B+ (my mistake because he deserved a C or D). The B+ grade led directly to two administrative hearings supported by faculty who had given him a fellowship because fellowship students only get A grades.
Little known fact about Ludwig von Mises is he was a pioneer of grade inflation. NYU students took his class for an easy A.
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Saul Geiser (same author as below) in a January 2024 letter to the NYT: “In the three years since U.C. eliminated the SAT requirement, it has seen no diminution in the academic performance of entering students.”
“UC has now been test-free for four years. The sky hasn’t fallen. Academic standards haven’t slipped. What has changed is the student body: More low-income, first-generation and underrepresented students are earning spots without affirmative action.”
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@sfmcguire79 Months ago I wrote something on the logical error in Geiser's claims. https://t.co/YeaQ5rjOvN
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I was hoping to see evidence documenting the statement that "Students admitted without test scores did just as well in their first and second years." That goes against the reported experience of other schools that dropped tests. If it's true, it's big news. But it requires
@charlesmurray I’d love to hear your thoughts. https://t.co/0xiSMSpwM4
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“UC has now been test-free for four years. The sky hasn’t fallen. Academic standards haven’t slipped. What has changed is the student body: More low-income, first-generation and underrepresented students are earning spots without affirmative action.”
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The ABC's Radio National kindly invited me onto Sunday Extra to talk about @Quillette turning ten https://t.co/BDqGlUJBDt
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Claire Lehmann is the founder and proprietor of the online magazine Quillette which is celebrating its 10th anniversary. What is the secret to the survival of Quillette in the current media landsca...
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For years, Brian C. Anderson has been so busy making @CityJournal into one of our best and most important news sources, that he hasn't had time to write as much as he should. This piece is just what is needed: a concise and precise description of the information landscape, short
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The public will always need reliable storytelling.
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Interesting thread providing further proof of the intellectual corruption of leading medical associations. They have an agenda which is odds with the vast majority of physicians in FL.
Groups that claim to represent doctors, like @AmerMedicalAssn & @AmerAcadPeds, are all-in for DEI and pediatric "gender affirming care." @PeerReReview @karencyphers & I surveyed doctors in FL and found they overwhelmingly oppose the positions of their medical associations. 🧵1/
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Genuine advice here: I don’t think relitigating this with me is good for your case. Here is what I actually wrote: https://t.co/kKlymvK7Rw You engaged in “hypocrisy projection“ against FIRE and I have very little patience for that.
.@TheFIREorg has been silent on firing in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting- while @PostGuild and other free speech advocates have defended me. When I brought up the double standard, @glukianoff went on a tweet thread meltdown. Unserious leadership there.
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When I said, back during COVID, that learning loss was going to be serious, I actually got several responses along these lines. It caused me great dispair.
These quotes from the head of the Los Angeles teachers’ union (published in 2021) are absolutely bonkers:
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In which the author explains how his failed policy is actually a great success. keep in mind that the students at UCSD that enrolled because of his policy got A’s and B’s in algebra, geometry, and trig, but couldn’t do middle-school math. https://t.co/SQcfBx5PgT
“UC has now been test-free for four years. The sky hasn’t fallen. Academic standards haven’t slipped. What has changed is the student body: More low-income, first-generation and underrepresented students are earning spots without affirmative action.”
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“UC has now been test-free for four years. The sky hasn’t fallen. Academic standards haven’t slipped. What has changed is the student body: More low-income, first-generation and underrepresented students are earning spots without affirmative action.”
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Equally insufferable are tenured professors who go by their first names in their classrooms.
Sorry, literally every person who goes by “Dr.” and isn’t a medical doctor is insufferable. None of you are the exception. Not one.
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