The State of the Uni

In a new interview with podcaster extraordinaire Carter Ponce, I reflect on the last two years and call out the charlatanism and defamatory manoeuvres employed by one UofT activist student group.

Subscribers to my Substack will notice that I’ve been uncharacteristically silent of late, and many colleagues across my institution have doubtless been quietly (but prematurely) sighing in relief. But rest assured, I’ve been busy these past few months.

After a fascinating experience attending Jordan Peterson’s Alliance for Responsible Citizenship in February and meeting a veritable sea of movers and shakers in the centre-right political sphere—from Jordan himself to Douglas Murray and Nigel Biggar, from Liz Truss to Leo Kearse, I was lucky enough to meet with the truly heroic Ayaan Hirsi Ali and land the opportunity to write for her newly emerging Courage.Media platform.

You can read my first article here, in which I contemplate the fate of meritocratically minded professors such as myself at a modern North American university awash with wokery. There’s more to come, and in 2025, as the wheels start to come off the undercarriage of higher education in the West, I’ll be busy shining a spotlight on some of the ways we have gone awry in Canada, and how an elite group of likeminded but collectively deranged academics have steered universities into an existential crisis.

What’s become transparent from a number of documents that I’ve been shown in recent times is just how deep the culture of feather-bedding by university administrators goes, and how financial mismanagement and incompetence has been normalised into the everyday life of our campuses. Stay tuned, and you’re guaranteed a front-row seat.

In the meanwhile, enjoy the podcast!