Identity Cancels Reality
…anthropology, the weasel word was “interpretation,” with research being reduced to “our interpretations of their interpretations” of what people are doing. This is the central argument of the most influential…
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We Love Diversity, But Hate Differences
…(except for males, whites, Asians, Christians, and Jews) has a parallel set of demands at the cultural level. Today, in anthropology, it is forbidden to differentiate among cultures and societies,…
Scholarship Versus Racial Identity in Anthropology
…actually read the book in its entirety, or even a part of it, is unknown to us. And, most egregiously, the British Association of Biological Anthropology and Ostearchaeology has called…
The New Anthropology
In their recent “Open Letter Demanding the Overhaul of McGill’s Statement of Academic Freedom,” the Anthropology Students Association and the Anthropology Graduate Student Association of McGill University have schooled us…
Why the Wokerati Are Cultural Marxists
…refuted by the evidence. In my own field of anthropology, females earned more than 60% of the Ph.D. degrees by 2007. “From 2005 to 2015, women were 67 percent of…
Add Me to the List of Canceled Professors
…at McGill not to learn anthropology, but to teach anthropology. Perhaps this is because anthropology, once a discipline fact- and evidence-based, has been overtaken by ideological moralism, and rather than…
Diversity is Important. Diversity-Related Training is Terrible.
…“Why Doesn’t Diversity Training Work? The Challenge for Industry and Academia.” Anthropology Now 10(2): 48-55. Dobbin, Frank w/ Daniel Schrage & Alexandra Kalev (2015). “Rage against the Iron Cage: The…
Racism: What It Is and What It Is Not (Part I)
…of biology, anthropology, and genetics have not achieved consensus on just how many different races currently exist (see Frisby, 2018, Table 13.1, pp. 283). The number of racial categories ranges…
Faculty Demand a Racism Star Chamber at Princeton
…to a shocking 30.2-to-1 imbalance of Democrats to Republicans among anthropology faculty. Another study, written by Mitchell Langbert and Sean Stevens and published by the National Association of Scholars, found…
The Invention of ‘Systemic Racism’
…Center for the Arts, and Anthropology. Enforce repercussions (as in, no hires) for departments that show no progress in appointing faculty of color. Elevate more faculty of color to prominent…
If You Love Anti-American Riots, Thank Our Universities
…the small anthropology department in which I taught for fifty years declared proudly that they were communists. Two others preferred to call themselves Marxists. One colleague in political science was…
Where Does the Impulse to Vilify America and the West Come From?
…studies, Chicano studies, etc., “woke” ideology and virtue signaling spread rapidly to anthropology, sociology, political science, English, and other “humanistic” disciplines, social work, and education. From radical “social justice education…
Word by Word, SJW’s Are Changing America
…by other social science disciplines, such as anthropology. But activists advocating for one group or other have latched onto alleged category level “rights,” such as “equal representation.” If representation of…
The War Against White People
…became the last people in the world to believe in Marxism. From that time, Marxist anthropology, Marxist sociology, Marxist political science, and Marxist geography became an important fixture in universities,…
Want Viewpoint Diversity on Campus? Here’s How
…students want to major in fields like anthropology, art history, and English, 63% of administrators have backgrounds in the arts, humanities and social sciences – three times the number of…
Why Men Are Falling Behind in Schools
…in math, physical sciences, engineering, and computer science. Some 60% of Ph.Ds in sociology, anthropology, and linguistics were awarded to females. [Why Are So Many Campus Feminists Anti-Male?] However, the…
Today’s Social Science Courses—More Feelings, Fewer Facts
…anthropology. But even in anthropology, there are researchers devoted to a scientific approach. Some of them huddle together in the Society for Anthropological Science, which says that it “was organized…
What Happened to Our Universities?
…was found in a turn to moralism and political activism. This drew on the critical Marxist anthropology of the 1970s and came to fruition in the most popular anthropology book…
How ‘Social Justice’ Warriors Kill Free Thought
…are not compatible, and, more specifically, that equality and freedom are incompatible. I submitted it initially to a distinguished anthropology journal that turned it down with the editor’s remark that…
The Growing Threat of Repressive Social Justice
…support freedom of speech. My own anthropology students at McGill University, asked whether they favored human rights, as set out by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, endorsed…
Are All Cultures Equally Good?
…that is legally — equal. Most decisions are made democratically and in a decentralized fashion. Individual families have considerable autonomy. Related: How Anthropology Was Corrupted and Killed Tribes do two…
It’s Time to Fight for Western Civilization
Soon after arriving at McGill University in 1968 from a year of ethnographic field research in Iran, I met an intelligent and sincere young man, an anthropology student, who told…
Defending a Debased Version of the Liberal Arts
…the AAUP and the AAC&U mean by the “liberal arts.” Related: How They Hijacked Anthropology They are definitely not defending the ideals of disinterested inquiry in the core subjects of…
How ‘They’ Hijacked Anthropology
…influences led to this shift: One was the morphing of symbolic anthropology into interpretive anthropology under the influence of Clifford Geertz, who distanced himself from science and likened anthropology to…
Protecting Academic Freedom Through All the Campus Smoke
…fighting wildfires. I passed up that career in favor of the far more practical training in social anthropology. But sometimes it seems I still ended up in the business of…
When Universities Go Out of Control
…we see him in dialogue with the adolescent reptilian brain. Amazing. The students are perfectly moronic in their virtue. Send the video over to the anthropology department. Jean Cocteau once…
The Feds Make a Mess of Sex and Gender
…be true of the elastic concept of “gender,” which has been thrust on American culture as the all-purpose substitute for sex. As it happens, my discipline, anthropology, bears some responsibility…
How Anthropology Was Corrupted and Killed
…about the sheer variety of ways humans can go about being human. But then anthropology touched its relativistic bottom. In the 1980s it collectively decided that anthropology itself was ethnocentric….
Pollyannas on the Right: Conservatives OK on Campus
…and literature. The effect if not the purpose of this restriction was to exclude a number of fields — they mention psychology, anthropology, education, and all the race/ethnicity/gender “studies” programs…
BDS: Jew-Hating Propagandists on the March
…52 in Anthropology; nine in international studies; and seven in Environmental Studies. Twenty have faculty appointments at Rutgers, including twelve members of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department. Thirty-five have…