The Juice is Worth the Squeeze
…and accessibility (DEIA) criteria in the evaluation and tenure review of all faculty members. [More from Wenyuan Wu: “Graduate Student Strikes: Reasonable Demands or Cosmic Justice?”] In 2023, the Academic…
…and accessibility (DEIA) criteria in the evaluation and tenure review of all faculty members. [More from Wenyuan Wu: “Graduate Student Strikes: Reasonable Demands or Cosmic Justice?”] In 2023, the Academic…
…all their kindred who forward ideologies such as “social justice” and “community engagement,” and all the illiberal policies they enforce, are meant above all to remove from academia all critics…
…may appear, are what Thomas Sowell calls “the quest for cosmic justice.” Social justice proponents seek socially engineered outcomes that require specific, equalizing interventions to correct more than merely the…
…new college could be somewhat sheltered from the growing divisiveness of critical social justice under the guise of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The newly independent Academic Senate grounded the college…
…course, does it make a difference? A Turn to the Objective: How do we explain social and racial disparities? As an instructor of anthropology, I would likely de-emphasize the subjective…
…social, and political in its implications, it must mark its own trauma, coming and going like a hurricane. Mailer also had a gift for generic innovation, but even that was…
How social science has become social commentary It is well known that social science—psychology, sociology, and economics—has devolved into more than one hundred sub-specialties. Less well known is the result:…
…that could possibly justify a salary of, say, $125,000, travel and research funding, and ample benefits? [Related: “The Corruption of Science by Social Justice”] From the perspective of American society…
…Citation justice warriors point to such sociological causes as reasons why they need to form their own rival citation cartels for, say, blacks or homosexuals. Citation justice is, in this…
…kept objectivity and expertise front and center at all times. Without it, there is no rationality, reasoning, or even legitimate creative license (unlike “living” constitutionalism or various social justice activism…
…actually protect professors and students from social justice warriors. SJSU had adopted the Chicago Principles, yet it still retaliated against me for my views. Thus, I am currently suing the…
…their response was morally wrong. [Related: “The Corruption of Science by Social Justice”] Philosophy classes—or any liberal arts classes—at their best encourage vigorous debate and dialogue about truth claims. I…
…such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health have infused science with popular notions of social justice. This corrupts science, damages public trust, and puts our…
…of citing research from the last people who actually observed the potlatch and described it as a way to formalize social hierarchies, resolve bloody wars, or sacralize vast inequalities of…
…theory, “social justice” is now defined as the implementation of “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” But the initiatives for this did not come from the U.S. Congress or the Canadian Parliament….
…findings, published by the Manhattan Institute, are alarming. No Learning Environment is Insulated Goldberg and Kaufmann conceptualize left-wing cultural socialism as “Critical Social Justice” (CSJ) and operationalize CSJ through eight…
Colleges and universities seem obsessed with race and other social “identities.” Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) bureaucracies are often powerful on campus, and college staffs are sometimes required to swear…
…the quest to replace merit with so-called “equity.” There is, however, a more immediate psychological explanation. The energetic pursuit of social justice may be an addictive quest for euphoria—it feels…
“Key components of the [Lamat] Institute include intensive research instruction … and social justice discussions. In addition, a comprehensive mentoring professional development program is designed to encourage mentors and mentees…
…views about race, gender, racism, and social justice. Again and again, this fact is demonstrated by higher education DEI initiatives. By now, it should be obvious that diversity statements will…
…state legislatures (F29, F80). Meditating on a post-WWII and post-nuclear social order, Borges draws on the same mythological monster. As in the work of Milton and Hamilton, there’s something surreal,…
…Feminism also has drawn conclusions about biology and social life: social roles have no basis in biology and there are no biological differences between males and females; rather, social roles…
…loathe Trump. You are a good person. And your ascent in a super-selective system doesn’t undermine your social sympathies—it reinforces them, for this is what smart people believe. Liberalism is…
…[Related: “Belling the DIE Cat”] Given the incompatibility between the values of liberal social justice and critical social justice, it is time for Americans to fashion similar compromises. Those of…
…topics as social justice, critical race theory, and intersectionality. Remarkably, Ohio State might be the worst offender in the nation—surpassing even such progressive bastions as the University of California, Berkeley….
…procedures Lhamon insists upon are back in place. [Related: “The ‘Social Justice Factory’ and Biden’s Title IX Regulations”] Lhamon’s new rules may also make it impossible for legal activists to…
…by the dictates of an intellectual oligarchy as by those of an autocrat.” – Patrick Arthur Devlin, The Enforcement of Morals “In the social domain, the restraints that protect privacy…
In my sixth year as a professor—the same year that Barack Obama’s Department of Justice reshaped Title IX into a tool to police political speech on campus—a student filed a…
…about obesity in light of a higher pursuit of social justice. Indeed, WC4BL advocates for a “redistribution of power and resources,” and “unlearning toxic medical knowledge and relearning medical care…
…academic achievements on social media and ostracized me for years, and nothing was ever done about it. I was, therefore, forced to turn to social media to respond to this…