…plasticity; the social origins of inequality; and the possibility of engineering our institutions to create complete social justice. *Murray’s 1994 argument that intelligence is mostly fixed at birth runs afoul…
…to admit that ours is not so much a middle-class country any longer. Murray observes that our meritocracy based on productivity typically talks Sixties liberationism and social justice and might…
…to President Donald Trump. The increases in sociology undergraduate majors has more to do with student fascination with criminology and criminal justice concentrations within the sociology major than it does…
NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues we are witnessing an internal war over what in fact is a university’s core sacred value: is it truth? Or social justice? If it…
…it is a social justice crusade, interested as much in promoting a left-wing, globalist counter-culture as it is discovering truth through inquiry. That this model might be imperiled by such…
…college campuses that young people become imbued with such progressive notions as social justice, white privilege, sustainability, intersectionality, anti-capitalism, institutional racism, microaggressions and more. On many campuses, intellectually weaker students…
…encouraged undergraduate students to help expand abortion rights as a social justice issue. Collaborating with the dissident Catholics for Choice, Law Students for Reproductive Justice, a student law school organization…
…political advocacy. Civic engagement, global learning, and so on, all are forms of service-learning. Social Justice, Progressive Policies Justified by the Putative Sufferings of Designated Victim Groups: Social justice aims…
…colleges — including Babson and Wellesley — are committed. Quickly, the word spread via social media that the pair had engaged in racist and homophobic slurs, including a targeted visit…
…of Buzzwords Like Dispositions and Social Justice The university may have a social mission to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion, even in the name of “social justice” (which Jonah Goldberg…
…social psychologist at the University of Central Oklahoma who wrote on the Psychology Today site that the HXA statement “is an example of being out of touch with conservative students…
…Israel’s actions in Palestine. Fostering strong social identities is a recipe for group conflict. Colleges prime social identities in a number of ways. For example, we strengthen social identity when…
…job, thanks to the humorless, Social Justice Warrior-brand of campus culture run amok and a misunderstanding about a Twitter account. Enmeshed in a conspiracy — thinly disguised as sympathy —…
The Obama administration has repeatedly violated civil liberties on campus. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has been the chief culprit, but the Department of Justice has played…
…making those who were already leaning that way into Social Justice Warrior types, the students who have been responsible for so much turmoil on campuses in recent years. What is…
…they tolerate your deviance without too much aggression.” A Radical Fringe He attributes his concerns regarding the Ontario Human Rights Commission to “social justice warrior-type activists [being] over-represented in the…
…hangers were thrown around. The administration, not known for standing up to Social Justice Warriors on campus, issued a vapid free -speech statement but took no action. The Feminist campus…
…universities make much greater and more explicit commitments to social justice, often including mandatory courses and training for everyone in social justice perspectives and content. Now that many university presidents…
…to prosecute (and improve conviction rates against) more and more people has dangerous implications for the fundamental principles of justice, and for basic freedoms. The situation as things stand, he…
…emerge when rapid social change threatens the status quo and society’s norms and values are changing so quickly that people cannot easily adjust to new societal demands. In the face…
…with passion, grace, and growing resolve that ‘Black Lives Matter’ and to call for justice, for ally-ship, and for hope.” (Note what happened. Khurana gave Harvard’s backing to a controversial…
…be a social animal, oriented around preserving and enhancing our species by living according to our social instincts. We’re happiest when we devote ourselves to family, community, and country, and…
…into one of the grand old buildings on campus and defaced ten historical portraits of distinguished Brown personages from centuries past. These “social justice warriors” spray-painted one large white letter…
…absolute requirement.” The problem with mandating a commitment to social justice is that students and faculty are often mandated to agree with the ways in which social justice is defined…
…is part of a larger climate of super-sensitivity, giving rise to proliferating prohibitions supposedly in the interest of social justice that constrain fiction writers and prospectively makes our work impossible….
…now explicitly critique inequalities and injustices, oppression and hegemony, in order to lead students to pursue change on behalf of “social justice,” yet another overused and vague term (see Patai…
…colleges where they’d have been challenged and into ones where they’ll do fine but perhaps not their very best. For all the lip service they pay to various “social justice”…
…can promote justice. The Reality: American Colleges Railroad the Innocent For those who have spent any time on campus in the past two decades, this argument seems counterintuitive. The contemporary…
…sexual misconduct, while depriving accused students of due process rights in campus disciplinary proceedings. Related: Feminist Censored from Censorship Panel The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, led by Vanita Gutpa,…
…professor. Shortly thereafter, the Dept. of Justice sent letters to Gov. McCrory and the University of North Carolina claiming that H.B.2 violated Title VII and Title IX of federal civil…