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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…from worship. They worry that it neglects the higher things of virtue, justice, and community. In sum, they worry that championing free enterprise capitalism elevates lower material goods over higher…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…industries like healthcare, finance, and criminal justice. Desires for RAI will not be categorically different from the corporations’ desires to be fair and unbiased in other areas. To avoid the…
…justice warrior and amateur psychologist who gives lectures in empty halls about the power of sexual liberation and takes it upon herself to “help” Ignatius. Although diametrically opposed in their…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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….
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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…willingly embrace. The word has a legitimate meaning in Roman law, referring to the need to correct strict justice in light of a wider sense of fairness. Summum ius, summa…
…the focus remains on humanitarian concerns of which Israel is particularly conscious. Justice: The concept of justice emanates from a Jewish Biblical heritage, and which concept became an integral part…
…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…
…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…
…resisting the Court’s edict. Such disapproval may well turn the duplicitous virtue-seeking school president into a martyr for racial justice and, ironically, only increase the self-satisfaction for defying the court….
…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…
…“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++,…
…“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…
…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…
…Palestinian terrorists on October 7, 2023, has exposed the indefensible belief system these activists try to conceal through their appropriation of social justice jargon. Unabashedly proclaiming their support for Hamas—the…