Another Attempt to Undermine Religious Freedom
…9th Circuit refused to allow this, claiming that the “district court erred in concluding that Morrissey-Berru was a ‘minister’ for purposes of the ministerial exception.” The 9th Circuit justices have…
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When Meeting Racial Quotas Is Impossible
…disparate outcome. Something in the institution was keeping black numbers down. [‘Social Justice’ Ideology Is Damaging American Values] I had spent the day walking around campus and hadn’t counted the…
Playing Politics With History
At the American Historical Association’s recent annual meeting, the program’s abundance of panels were devoted to issues of social justice. Perhaps its name should be changed to the Activists Historical…
The Humanities Throw in the Towel
…to recognize these differences, we are all elitists. No amount of identity politics-based promotions of minor figures will change that. Nor will social justice-enforced demotions stick. The common judgment of…
‘Social Justice’ Ideology Is Damaging American Values
…require students to take social-justice courses, such as “Native Sexualities and Queer Discourse” or “Hip-hop Workshop,” and attend social-justice events—such as a Reparations, Repatriation, and Redress Symposium or a Power…
The Campus Tendency to Extremism
…by “social justice” ideology. “Social justice” warriors on campuses make more and more extreme and outrageous demands daily. These demands do not sit well even with confirmed “progressives” such as…
A Feminist Bothered by ‘Everything’
…inability to fathom Fourth Wave Feminists who declare themselves afraid to attend college or seek “lean-in” type jobs (oh the rape culture!) and her schism with Social Justice Warriors whose…
It’s Time to Purge Your Universities of Anti-Semitism
…ideology in the language of human rights and social justice, which is their furtive way of promoting their corrosive agenda and which is why administrators are often hesitant to question…
Guilty of Cultural Appropriation in an ‘Insensitive’ Facebook Post
…possibly care less about who gets offended. If my choice of costume is restricted by “social justice”—that is, “victim” worship and fetishizing—I’m going to rail against every boundary these people…
A Racially “Woke” Agenda Is Now Hardwired in Public Schools
…array of leftist notions — notions that make them highly receptive to further leftist teaching and calls for them to act against perceived enemies of the social justice agenda. [Where…
Where Does the Impulse to Vilify America and the West Come From?
…greater government centralization and power. The call for “social justice” is often joined by a condemnation of capitalism and a plea for socialism. The left’s tendency for totalitarianism is seen…
College Summer Reading: A Mandated Dive Into ‘Oppressed Minorities’
…single most popular book is Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, another memoir, this one on how the corrupt criminal justice system should be overturned. Second…
Why Harvard’s Affirmative Action Victory Should Be Overturned
…one reason, you can discriminate for any and all reasons. As the eminent social scientist James Q. Wilson once observed, “we did not fight the Civil War to make sure…
Free Speech Must Be Protected Inside and Outside the College Classroom
…spaces where students develop their own reputations and social standing within various groups. If a student “offends” another student by disagreeing with the social justice mandates on campus, the social…
Doing Physics While Black
…Chief Justice Roberts asked Gregory Garre, the counsel for the University of Texas, “What unique perspective does a minority student bring to a physics class?” Mr. Garre was unable to…
Teaching That America Is Hopelessly Racist
…assumes that reading the book will get you ready to sign up for social justice activism, in service of the Equal Justice Initiative. Stevenson’s Just Mercy has already been assigned…
How Conservatives Can Win Without Whining
…on Twitter. The next paragraph is just as bad. It contains two words high in the social justice nomenclature: Since 1951, College Republicans at NC State have advocated strongly for…
A Weak Attempt at Justifying Admissions Preferences
…have contributed in the battle for “social justice.” I will return to that point later. What Educational Benefits? First, Weisman relies on the jaded claim that having a “diverse” student…
A Confusing Racial Decision for Harvard
…shows all the indications of a reformed sinner eager to undergo Harvard’s diversity training. One would think that an institution so solemnly dedicated to social justice as Harvard—“we strongly believe…
Nike, Kaepernick and Looming Tribal Warfare
Today, many people, in the U.S., Canada, and the rest of the West, have rejected liberal democracy in favor of “woke” identity politics and cultural Marxist “social justice.” Following the…
How Oberlin Played the Race Card and Lost
…set of progressive imperatives. Among these are the propositions that America is a racist nation; that the pursuit of “social justice” overrides petty concerns about specific details or mere factual…
Are the Doors to Elite Universities Still Open to Jewish Students?
…that the universities themselves, responding to a host of larger cultural, social and political trends, have divested themselves of the values and practices that have made them mighty engines of…
The $44 Million Verdict Against Oberlin
…element of the case—a separate, preferred criminal justice system open only to Oberlin students and not other county residents—played particularly poorly with the jury. In short, a key Oberlin administrator…
When Radical Ideologies Corrupt Universities
…advance social justice. The mystery is rather why this stopped, and the answer is, more or less, “shareholder value-ism,” which was entirely an invention of academia and entirely in service…
Goodbye Humanities—Hating White Males Is Not a Curriculum
…and sexual chip on their shoulders? Apart from a batch of social justice kids who relish blaming the White Man for all social ills, few undergraduates find the approach appetizing….
Word by Word, SJW’s Are Changing America
…rather than face barriers by “social justice” apartheid of racial, gender, sexual preference dorms, dining, and ceremonies; in sum, the right not to be a victim of “social justice” impositions?…
The Final Corruption of the SAT’s
…insiders. They know, or at least they think they know, where the interests of social justice lie. The rest of us are just the hapless pawns of their betting strategies…
The Wolves of the Academy
…You don’t have to be J. Robert Oppenheimer to devastate campus airheads, space cadets, snowflakes, social justice warriors, hare-brained cultural Marxists and others who traffic in comic stupidities. So, when…
Google, Facebook Censorship ‘A Mistake’
…utopians who came to believe that they could impose their own brands of social justice on humanity? Note that I cite fictional versions of the would-be world conquerors. Let’s not…
The Birth of a Nation
…asked, “Is this work historically significant? Is it aesthetically brilliant? Is it morally and intellectually profound?” The social justice youths ask, instead, “Does this offend me? Does it misrepresent me?…