Birth of an Activist: How A Historian of 30 Years “Woke” Up
…the system of higher education long before there was a United States, European colonization of the Americas, or really anything having to do with our present society. Social justice was…
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The Invention of ‘Systemic Racism’
…by our ever more left leaning universities that relentlessly indoctrinate students in “progressive” social justice and socialist ideas. African Americans in particular, and people of color in general, are the…
Minute 14 for Robin DiAngelo
…battle for social justice or against social injustice becomes the reflexive justification and overarching rubric for any action, program, opinion, or activity of the moment, which may or may not…
The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations at Rutgers
…public university to make as a central feature of its teaching social issues? This is not a social justice department, or a black studies department, or an institute or program…
An Unlikely Higher Education Watchdog Draws Flak
…Title IX, affirmative action, speech codes, diversity, social justice, identity politics, grievance studies, and many other controversial positions. After a relatively brief tenure as President (a post he assumed in…
The Long March to Educational Reform
…teach in a traditional setting with motivated students. Not having to assign gibberish-filled textbooks whose purpose is to achieve social justice is surely worth a few thousands per year, and…
If You Love Anti-American Riots, Thank Our Universities
…“social justice,” which is operationally defined as special preferences and benefits to preferred categories of people. The rationale for “social justice” is also counterfactual: it claims that any difference in…
An Announcement for Our Readers
…Questions, its own website (www.nas.org), podcasts, webinars, and numerous stand-alone research reports such as The Lost History of Western Civilization, Outsourced to China, and Social Justice Education in America. ###…
The Mandatory Banality of University Presidents
…a fundamental and deeply distressing injustice, here as elsewhere,” and vowed that, “Duke University will continue the work of addressing generations of racism and injustice.” Martha Pollack, the president of…
Who Succeeds, and Why?
…label for such policies is “social justice.” One might say that it is simply reverse racism and reverse sexism in action, but progressives claim that reverse racism and sexism do…
The Real Differences Between Men and Women
…has been a gradual transformation, particularly in the social sciences and humanities, in which science and rigorous analysis has been replaced by “social justice” political advocacy, by ideological victimology and…
COVID-19 Bites Identity Politics
…those researching it. Indeed, the spread of the virus seems to depend also on social configurations (proximity, touching, etc.), but that’s because underlying that social aspect is an infectious virus…
Can the Integrity of Our Colleges Be Restored?
…illiberal institutions guided by grievance and victim ideology. The source of this transformation is no mystery. Feminists gradually took over the social sciences and humanities, claiming to be abused victims…
Wanna Teach? Submit a Killer ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ Statement
…‘Social Justice’ Pandemic] Will rightly marks this trend as a flagrant violation of academic freedom. Under the guise of benign watchwords and happy slogans, it recalls the loyalty oaths of…
Virus ‘Stress’ Prompts Students to Demand Easy A’s at Harvard
…so no student should be graded. Our snowflakes and our social justice warriors, heavily overlapping categories, naturally want to eliminate all grades. Students who were doing well in class aren’t…
How Low Can Higher Education Go?
…and minority students. [Colleges Give Up on Western Civilization] Access to first-rate higher education—genuine, uncorrupted higher education—has always been a powerful force for social justice in the broadest sense. Education…
Court Rules Free Speech Must Yield to ‘Woke’ Speech
…be fired. [The University of Texas Succumbs to the ‘Social Justice’ Pandemic] Doe complained to Shawnee administrators who, in turn, called Meriwether in for a meeting. They reminded him of…
The 85 Universities that Discriminate on the Basis of Sex
…award for male students, the Eric G. Rowe Scholarship Fund, is reserved for “deserving farm boys” who plan to attend the university’s School of Agriculture. [‘Social Justice’ Ideology Is Damaging…
The University of Texas Succumbs to the ‘Social Justice’ Pandemic
…of Social Justice.” (The school’s mission statement declares that “we should work to promote social justice and social change, and should strive to end discrimination, oppression, poverty, and other forms…
The Real Reason for Racial Achievement Gaps
…“acting white”? * Discipline. Progressives have implemented “social justice” approaches to school and classroom discipline on the grounds that suspensions and other punishments disproportionately affect minorities. The resulting breakdown in…
Colleges Give Up on Western Civilization
…together. [‘Social Justice’ Ideology Is Damaging American Values] The outcome at Stanford 30 years ago still holds. By tracing curriculum controversies over the decades, the NAS report reveals how the…
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…
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…