DeVos Urges Campuses to Promote Free Speech
…between pursuing truth and pursuing harmony. It simply isn’t possible, the Secretary implied, for a university to remain devoted to the truth while focusing on “social justice”—given that the “social…
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How a Social Justice Mob Fired a Tenured Professor
…the U.S. Essentially, Mehta stood up for disinterested academic standards during a period in which Acadia University was rushing pell-mell to the “social justice” agenda. The Herald News of Halifax…
A Professor at Brown Uncovers a Transgender Inconvenient Truth
…social factors, rather than biological ones, could influence young adults’ transgender identities. Lisa Littman, an Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, in a peer-reviewed published study based on anonymous…
What Your Sons and Daughters Will Learn at University
…is no longer the case. Particularly in the social sciences, humanities, education, social work, and law, a single political ideology has replaced scholarship and research, because the ideology presents fixed…
Teaching Madison as Slaveholder, not as Author of the Constitution
…current academic ideal of Civic Engagement is democracy or democratic engagement to provide social justice to marginalized or oppressed minority groups (factions) through a collective or popular will. Why is…
Diversity Studies: Your Path to a 6-Figure Salary
…group majors hardly put much bread on the table. To be blunt, the well-intentioned, socially responsible university is guilty of fraud when it tells its socially-minded recruits that a degree…
Is Affirmative Action Near Its Expiration Date?
…risk. It was Bakke, after all, that first approved “the Harvard Plan” of “diversity”-justified discrimination that is now under attack in federal court. In 1978, Justice Powell swallowed Harvard’s Kool-Aid…
A Tide Flowing Toward Free Speech on Campus
…for a while to be immune to all the rules because leftist administrators just couldn’t bring themselves to impose serious consequences for lawlessness in the name of “social justice.” But…
Harvard, Not Trump, Could Kill Affirmative Action
…Justice before the end of the year, academia will continue to write its own rules and institute its own policies on racial preferences. More important is a lawsuit filed against…
How to Tongue-Lash Mindless SJW’s
…next—height and weight are socially constructed?” Particularly aggressive social justice warriors will be called the Rainbow Gestapo (or the Multicultural Mafia) while those availing themselves of university channels to report…
How Campus Bullies Pulled Off the Anti-Israel BDS Movement
…or merely deny that Zionism is racism, risk “verbal attack, social and professional ostracization,” and “setbacks to their careers.” As an undisguised Zionist, who has so far avoided such consequences,…
Are Alumni Pulling the Policy Strings in Academia?
…flag” for them regarding social justice for the GLBTQ community. Holloway should know that for a faithfully Catholic college like Franciscan, there is a challenge in defining social justice for…
College for Everyone? Even the Left Has Doubts
…should go to college.” But the NYT headline is no fluke. Many on the left are now wondering out loud whether mass higher education is the golden road to “social…
Evergreen College Gets an ‘F’ In Lessons Learned
…sensitivity and anti-bias training, plus an administrative reorganization plan heavy on “equity and inclusion.” Melchior predicts things will get worse for Evergreen, which, she says, would be rough social justice….
One Surefire Way to Stop Outrageous Student Demands
…otherwise feed the hungry. By contrast, contemporary campus-based social justice warriors can be a Dervish on steroids at “saving the world” at minimal cost per cause. All it takes is…
Who Needs Facts When Female Feelings Will Do?
…aspect of the struggle against violence and abuse. But no justice and no rule of law are possible without recognizing that people can be mistaken, misguided, and intentionally deceptive. This…
Harvard’s Bootcamp for Social Justice Warriors
…of social justice, including philosophy, economics, the environment, religion, politics, ethics, sociology, and law.” We also notice that in normal 21st century American English, “social justice” indicates the agenda of…
The Last-Ditch Battle to Protect Racial Preferences in California
…it is a deeply ingrained belief that social justice demands measures to close statistical gaps between “underrepresented” groups (particularly blacks and Hispanics) and “overrepresented” groups (which means whites and Asians)….
The Battle Over Pronouns Coming to a College Near You
…“theorized” out of existence through decades of insistence on the social construction of everything. Critics, however, note that transsexuals often seem determined to reinvigorate sex and gender stereotypes. Those who…
Jordan Peterson Provokes the Angry SJWs
…That is, Peterson strives to be a gentleman, but one who has honed some sharp opinions about feminism, social justice warriors, and attempts to put progressive ideology in the center…
Why a Penn Professor Was Vilified for Telling the Truth About Race
…dragon’s teeth. The teeth come back as social justice warriors. The warriors may silence the messenger, but that can’t extinguish the truth. In 2005, The New York Times published the…
Identity Politics v. the New ‘Me Generation’
…people to become members of a social justice movement or the Ku Klux Klan. Nor is it particularly useful — as Chua does — to portray the ethnic conflict in…
Yes, the Weird Campus Culture Pollutes the Whole Nation Now
…webs of identity group affiliation. To be sure, resentment and anger provide a certain source of gratification. Sullivan observes how “the imperatives of an identity-based ‘social justice’ movement” are dragging…
A New Book Takes On 500 Years of Modern Liberalism
…American counterpart to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, but also very little evidence about the solution he does endorse. Like most authors of books on politics and social conditions, Deneen is a…
What Professors Ought to Tell Students
…the social sciences, which examine how we feel, behave, and interact with one another, is spotty and will probably always remain so due to the elusive complexities of causation, psychology,…
The New Campus Anti-Americanism
…form of political indoctrination and always has been; and above all its comprehensive insistence on conformity to a handful of progressive doctrines including diversity, multiculturalism, social justice, and sustainability. The…
The Devious Plot Against the Universities
…claim to be “Trojan horse” pedagogy, where social justice themes and ideas are included as interdisciplinary research for unassuming students. Similarly, middle school teachers are teaching social justice while teaching…
Professor-Student Sex—Just a Problem of Dirty Old Men?
…that behind the anti-harassment campaign’s high-minded claims of concerns for equity and justice often lie far meaner and more personal motives. Blue Angel is even more relevant today than when…
‘We Made This (Harassment) Law Up From the Beginning and Now We’ve Won’
…distinctions? It turns out that well-known feminists have for decades insisted that heterosexuality itself is a socially constructed mechanism by which all men control all women. In this view, there…
What the Tax-Reform Law Could Do to Higher Education
…undergraduate education. The House has apparently decided to reward the students who are too busy pursuing social justice crusades to attend class on a regular basis. The reward is extending…