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<title><![CDATA[Peter Wood - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/24224.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Peter Wood]]></description><category domain="24224">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Education of Zohran Mamdani]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/education-zohran-mamdani-bowdoin/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Zohran grew up in an environment that was affluent, privileged, and high status; but also strongly disdainful of Western values]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Florida's Leaders Greenlight a DEI Radical?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2025/05/29/will_floridas_leaders_green_light_a_dei_radical_1113423.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Say this to the DEI radicals who have run higher education into the ground: They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re shameless.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will DEI Return to the University of Florida?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/will-dei-return-to-the-university-of-florida-santa-ono-reform-backward-progress-5010116e?st=cgAxZd</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ben Sasse made the school a model for reform. His evident successor, Santa Ono, has a bad record.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harvard Against America]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/8JEom</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Need a Reckoning on the 1619 Project]]></title>
							<link>https://tomklingenstein.com/we-need-a-reckoning-on-the-1619-project/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is impossible to say how deeply and how widely the destructive Left's false history has seeped into K-12 curriculum.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harvard Will Reap the Damage Caused by Claudine Gay]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/harvard-will-reap-the-damage-caused-by-claudine-gay/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the end Barack Obama, Penny Pritzker, 700-some members of the faculty, the mighty voice of the Harvard Crimson, and the entire nomenclature of the DEI movement could not save her from herself.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard University after a month of relentless...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harvard&rsquo;s Board Takes Us for Fools]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/12/20/harvards_board_takes_us_for_fools_150226.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, Harvard President Claudine Gay was accused of multiple instances of plagiarism. Three authors have said that they believe she plagiarized their work. News of this scandal followed Gay'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s appalling testimony on antisemitism before Congress, a performance that sparked...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How To Get Away With Plagiarism at Harvard]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/claudine-gay-way-words-dei-plagiarism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The main thing, besides plagiarism, that Harvard president Claudine Gay shares with Adam Wheeler, is vaulting ambition]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Disdain for America in Top Colleges]]></title>
							<link>https://tomklingenstein.com/higher-ed-support-for-hamas-exposes-disdain-for-america-in-top-colleges/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t like the pro-Hamas demonstrations by American college students, then you won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t like American higher education, which is the garden in which these flowers were grown.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the Left Survive Without Censorship?]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/disinfo-nation-censorship-here-to-stay-disinformation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the heart of the crusade against disinformation are lies and deception cultivated in our schools and amplified by compliant news readers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Most Americans Want Nothing To Do With Racial Division]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/supreme-court-affirmative-action-decisions-harvard/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's decision in Students For Fair Admissions, Inc.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' v. President and Fellows of Harvard College has riveted America]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cultural Collapse of American Higher Education]]></title>
							<link>https://quillette.com/2023/06/21/after-college/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The coming cultural collapse of American higher education.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Real Is America's Discontent?]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/real-america-discontent-anger-fear/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We've adapted our system of education at every level to emphasize fear and fragility. Children are taught to believe America is racist]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Prospects Are Cloudy for Our Colleges and Universities]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/nikole-hannah-jones-has-taken-over-the-history-profession/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The simple lesson is that Nikole Hannah-Jones wins again. She bestrides the American history profession like a colossus.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Florida Is Making Democrats Look Bad]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/two-americas-california-florida-desantis-newsom/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What is America? The answer to that simple question can get you into a lot of trouble. Or it can propel you to the Oval Office. You can try to run away from the question with adverbs. "Well, historically, America was the name a European mapmaker slapped on the unexplored continents...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Monster Is Loose]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/slaying-diversity-monster-dei/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about monsters as I contemplate the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) mandates that have swept through the nation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Covid Hysteria, Antiracism and the Collapse of Authority]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/questioning-authority-led-to-wokeness/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I was in high school, a bumper sticker, 'Question Authority,' became a common sight, as did a button saying the same thing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Harvard Canceled a Black Professor]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/when-harvard-canceled-a-black-professor/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Roland G. Fryer is a tenured professor of economics at Harvard. He is also black, widely published and the recipient of numerous awards.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Would Democrats Go to War Against American Energy?]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/present-bewilderment-richard-powers-energy-ukraine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 'bewilderment' of Powers's title refers most of all to the confused rage of Robin Byrne, the eight-year-old son of the narrator]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[J.P. Morgan and Our Gilded Age]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/book-and-art/jp-morgan-library-gilded-age-museums-deia/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Perhaps J.P. Morgan would be amused as to what has come of his legacy. But the Morgan Library &amp; Museum isn't doing anything that unusual]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[E.O. Wilson and the Climate Change Cult]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/eo-wilson-ants-climate-cult/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Famed ant specialist and sociobiologist E.O. Wilson passed away on December 26, age ninety-two. He came to national attention in 1975 with the publication Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, which is one of those books that steamrolled into public consciousness. It may not have been as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unwinding Democrats' Covid Hysteria Will Be Difficult]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/time-cdc-get-clue-rochelle-walensky-comorbidities/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The CDC has over 15,000 personnel. It is possible that every single one of them was in the library when Blanche breathed her last.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Anthropology Has Turned Its Back on Its Legacy]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/anthropology-turned-back-legacy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anthropology has turned its back on this legacy. It is a young discipline, dating by most accounts to the mid-nineteenth century]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Meaning of Trees Aflame]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/life/meaning-trees-aflame-christmas-tree-fox-news/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On December 8, a man set fire to and destroyed the fifty-foot artificial tree outside News Corp headquarters in midtown Manhattan]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trouble With Climate Change Conformists]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-climate-change-conformists/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For those like Joe Biden, it's always easier to feel certain about that which is uncertain, and then to virtue signal away.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The University of Austin: A Meteor Aimed at Higher Ed]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/university-austin-meteor-higher-education/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The new anti-woke institution sends shivers down the spines of the people whose lives are dedicated to liberal education as we know it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Are Losing the Debate Over CRT in Schools]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/nothing-phony-about-culture-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There was nothing 'phony' about the rebellion at the Virginia polls. Voters were expressing their genuine and deeply felt concerns]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[1619 Project Book's Goal Is To Keep Slandering America]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/17/the-1619-project-books-goal-is-to-keep-slandering-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why does The New York Times seem so desperate to maintain claims contradicted by a very clear and abundant historical record? Ideology and animus.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Whither the Woke?]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/whither-woke-voters-midterms-2022/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We will head into the midterms with a not especially competent but an energized GOP ready to give an old-fashioned wake for the woke]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats' Covid Overreach and the Delta Strain of Freedom]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/liberty-american-virus-covid/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We have been inoculated at birth by a virus more potent than COVID. It is the idea of liberty. Maybe we have the Delta variant of liberty]]></description>
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