Closing DEI Offices Is Not Enough
…and wellness programming. This all sounds useful, but the Commons is active on social media, publically and regularly “liking” posts that demand divestment from Israel or other aggressive posts that…
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Progressive Overreach and the Procrustes Impulse
…Challenge: Detering the Social Justice Procrustes Mindset Our Constitution embraces free speech. Visions of social justice are welcome but once they are enabled with the power of the state and…
The Baffling ‘Bull’ Behind Title IX
…Social Justice Attitudes” identified particular statements most closely associated with wokeness. Interestingly, our local survey study found that two particular beliefs—along with gender and political identity—predicted individuals’ perceptions of environmental…
Two Cultures Revisited
…for privilege for her side—women. Similarly, Nature, one of the top two general science journals, has published no less than 19 editorials advocating social justice in science.[8] Social-justice pledges have…
To Renew Faith in Education, Look to Passover and Resurrection
…no objective truth or goodness to be had. The fickle and constantly moving goalposts of social justice and identity politics are the fruits of removing these very notions of objective…
A Healthy Culture in a Healthy Economy
…higher things and the social body of free enterprise capitalism. This leads to flourishing. On the other hand, wrong views of the social body tend to distort our views of…
At UC Berkeley, there is one administrator for every four undergrads
…Timmia DeRoy. DeRoy is the first professor UC Berkeley has hired as a “social justice theater practitioner.” Other performing art professors do “incorporate social justice methodologies into their teaching,” according…
A Modern Day Thermopylae
…of anti-racism, social justice activism, or transgender ideology that denies the scientific truth of human biology, those who do not comply with the narrative or at least stay silent must…
Academic Freedom is Not an Academic License
…history, and management science. Law remains especially susceptible to ideological influence, as the culture within law schools often reinforces ideologies through special interest rules presented as expressions of justice. Our…
A Long View on Artificial Intelligence
…tasks like pricing airline tickets, detecting fraudulent transactions, increasing energy grid efficiency to reduce emissions, recommending similar products, automatically crafting playlists, personalizing ads on social media, and supplying better and…
Living in the Confederacy of Dunces
…came out nearly 45 years ago, it must have been one of the strangest books ever written. Its protagonist, Ignatius C. Reilly, is truly unique: a highly educated philosophical social…
Don Juan or Hamlet? Us or Them?
…down into a lifeless social order. Justice in El burlador de Sevilla is a more targeted, vengeful reprimand of a transgressor who likewise threatens to shred the social fabric around…
Yale University Decides It Needs Better Students Again
…began in June of 2020. What was sold as a temporary measure required by the realities of Covid-19 lockdowns was also, sub rosa, an experiment in social justice — the…
The Return of Western Civ
…become ideological training grounds for revolutionary shock troops and laboratories of social justice experimentation, the news from Utah is salutary. Finally, there is a chance that higher education may serve…
A Diversity Officer’s Dismissal of Rape Charges Exposes Racial Bias and Conflict of Interest at UTK
…believed in a justice system that would review their complaints promptly via a lawful and impartial judge. Instead, the adjudicative process was outsourced to a social club whose president is…
A Fumble for American Democracy
…of social justice slogans on helmet decals and in the End Zones. The NFL has even started its own line of social justice-inspired team hats. At its best, this wading…
Carroll and Borges: Two Perspectives on Individualism
…divided itself into three pieces.” To the degree that any alienated society recovers its sense of justice, it’s always going to be a matter of post hoc ergo propter hoc….
Reevaluating Racial Bias Allegations in Policing
Researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 51 studies published since 2005 from various academic databases looking at racial bias in criminal justice sentencing. They found that with the exception of a…
The Tyranny of Research
…over $1 billion annually.” The Equal Justice Society is an Oakland-based nonprofit with a mission to transform “the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts.” It…
After Claudine: How to Repair American Higher Education
…have been trained exclusively by the “social justice” quasi-Marxist, and sometimes full-scale Marxist, ideologues. In colleges and universities as a whole, a generation of faculty members now owe their appointments…
The Decline in American Universities, 2011-2024
…Nazi Germany. Associated with the new woke supremacy centered around “social justice” has come a decline in academic standards and expectations, with even prestigious selective schools dropping such important tools…
An Honest Diversity Statement
…pluralism in order to reduce social discord, but pluralism as such has not been celebrated as a positive feature of society until quite recently. In fact, diversity is a luxury…
The Irrelevance of Proportionality
…is partly framed on the principle of decolonisation, applied through an artifice of a nuanced social justice agenda, displaying a typical Marxian dualism of the oppressed (Palestinians, represented by Hamas)…
Counseling’s Political Purity Push: Unveiling the Identity Crisis That Hijacked Accreditation and Shaped a Profession
…Professional Counselors.” By implication, those standards would be CACREP standards, now legally required and routinely costing universities precious dollars. Other groups, like Counselors for Social Justice, have become so convinced…
I Was Canceled
…justice, history, politics, and many other subjects. At no point, however, did going to administrators to complain about information my professors taught cross my mind—even when new ideas made me…
Racial Preferences as Conspicuous Consumption
…campus signifies that the school is committed to social transformation, and it matters little what they study, accomplish or even if they graduate. As Oscar Wilde put it, “It is…
Why Plagiarism Matters
…is redefined as, say, “the pursuit of social justice,” or less grandly as “the credentialing of the workforce,” the reasons to forbid plagiarism are weakened. Maybe even abolished. But there…
Philip Carl Salzman: Who Is to Blame for the Anti-Semitism of Young Americans?
…“social justice” crusade, manifested in “diversity, equity, inclusion.” This was a way of favouring people who claimed to be members of victim categories—females, BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of colour), LGBTQ2S++,…
A Political Earthquake in an Overeducated Latin American Republic: Argentina Elects Javier Milei
…“social justice,” common in Latin America, is that it represses everyone’s creativity and dignity, turning them into passive wards of a failing state. This is why Milei’s stance on monetary…
Kindness Repaid with Horror: Dylann Roof, Hamas, and Our Universities
…Below is a representative screen-shot from the social media channel of a Philadelphia chapter of the misleadingly named “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP), which is still an official student…