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Just one single person has enrolled in the GOP’s $3 million anti-woke program at West Virginia University’s Washington Center.The taxpayer-funded Civics, Culture, and Statesmanship program has seen an abysmal level of interest ahead of the upcoming fall semester.“I do think that it’s important for the legislature and for the governor to reflect on this.... There is a question about whether or not this is the best use of public funds,” WVU political science professor Erik Herron told West Virginia Watch. “I think the Washington Center, ironically, seems to be exactly what it complains that higher education has become. It was created in Charleston, and it was imposed on the university, so it’s a big government mandate.”“I’m not happy about it,” said Democratic State Delegate John Williams, who voted against the center’s creation last year. “Now we’re in a position where we’ve allocated so much money towards this program, and only one person is taking advantage of it.”Republicans have defended low enrollment by noting that the program does not count toward university credits for students yet—a fact that does not instill confidence.The program, mandated in 2025 via a Republican bill, is intended to center the “great debates of western civilization,” “western history and culture,” and “the development of ideas across the political and ideological spectrum.” West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey put it more plainly, stating that the program existed to “push back on the woke ideology that has infected our schools and help return higher education to its true purpose.”The fall curriculum includes classes titled “Woke,” “The New Right,” and “Nation and Migration.”This is one of the more desperate cases of the right’s ongoing culture war in academia, the workplace, and beyond. Responding to what you perceive as ideological extremism in the classroom with your own ideological course—worth zero credits—is a decision steeped in delusion. We’ll see how many people are enrolled in the fall.

‘The Splinter’ at Bezalel Academy was born out of calls to boycott the institution. The result was a fraught collaboration between student unions. The post Can an exhibition be ‘explicitly political’ at Israel’s preeminent art school? appeared first on +972 Magazine.

On this 250th Consider How Different We Are, and Could Have Been The list of things the left has been correct about over the last 100 or so years is astounding. With so much review of history that has been presented as part of the 250th anniversary of the country, this aspect deserves a review [...] The post The Left Has Been Correct About a Long List appeared first on DCReport.org.

Colin Kidd’s new book contends that the senior university lecturers were not simply “quirky and eccentric individuals” but “something more akin to an estate of the realm.”

Eduardo Zayas-Bazán was a 24-year-old lawyer when he left Cuba for the United States and joined about 1,400 other Cuban exiles, who were known as Brigade 2506, to participate in the Bay of Pigs invasion, the botched 1961 mission to overthrow Fidel Castro’s communist regime. Always a gifted swimmer, he was a frogman, and when […]

As a declining imperialist system lashes out to preserve its declining order, working-class organisation becomes not only necessary for the oppressed of the world but indispensable to human survival. Dumile Feni, South Africa, African Guernica, 1967. (Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Forces of the South African left gathered in Johannesburg, South […]