Welcome to College: A Letter for the Journey Ahead
…college is not just about what you know, it’s about who you are becoming. You’re arriving at your new campus at a time of deep and troubling social division. From…
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A Year of Hostility—and Harvard Still Refuses to See It
…intellectual integrity requires confronting anti-Semitism wherever it appears, including when it comes dressed in the language of social justice and liberation. The test of moral leadership isn’t protecting popular causes…
Is the Campus Mental Health Crisis Rooted in Socialism?
…Likely because their worldview is built around constant crisis—climate catastrophe, inequality, and systemic injustice (especially racial injustice)—issues often perceived more than experienced. The more their identity is wrapped up in…
The Conservative Hiring Fix Will Backfire—and Miss the Point Entirely
…contends that modern universities are animated by two different sacred values: truth or social justice. Haidt views Karl Marx as the best exemplar of the social justice vision, noting his…
What Should We Look for in a College President?
…assumptions that “everybody knows” and that therefore escape critical scrutiny. The teachers in these courses are not militant ideologues but loyal followers of the dream of “social justice.” They may…
A Settlement Won’t Fix Columbia’s Anti-Semitism Problem
…anti-Semitism comes dressed in the language of anticolonialism, intersectionality, or social justice. To be very clear, this is not overreach. It’s long-overdue enforcement. Culture, Not Compliance, Is the Core Problem…
Foreign Rulings May Push U.S. Courts to Clearly Define and Defend Women’s Spaces
…and protections. Tickle v. Giggle In Australia, Sall Grover founded a women-only social app called Giggle for Girls in 2020. The app uses artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition software to…
Ames v. Ohio Affirms Equal Civil Rights for All, Undercuts DEI Legal Basis
…Justice Thomas, joined by Justice Gorsuch, concurred and took on the larger question of the legitimacy of making legally relevant group distinctions. That issue had decided the fate of group…
When Anti-Semitism Is Claimed, Facts Must Follow
…is not neutrality. When we allow falsehoods to flourish—especially under the guise of “social justice”—we fail in our basic responsibility as educators. It is no longer enough to issue symbolic…
A Surveillance University Is Rising in the Desert—And the West Is Helping Build It
…inclusive world where all aspects of the rainbow are talking and communicating with one another.” This may sound promising to globalist-minded techno-utopian social justice advocates. However, the problem is that…
People Like Mamdani Are Made in the Academy
…historically great champions of anti-Semitism, have experienced communism in practice too recently to be tempted by its faux utopianism.) Woke “social justice” gave the game away clearly, demanding “equity,” which…
In Memory of Sol Stern
…careless about their education or lost in their social justice ideologies. He was a fierce supporter of Israel and, as Anderson puts it, a “relentless critic of anti-Semitism.” But he…
It’s Time for Regime Change in Higher Education
…continues to deliver some reassuring sense of success, order, and self-identity, even or especially if this comes with membership in political movements that promise an illusion of social justice. To…
We Need a ‘PostBS’ Civics—Starting in Elementary and Middle School
…social reasoning begins early. For example, Piaget observed that children in the “concrete operational stage”—ages 7–11—begin to understand rules as flexible and based on mutual agreement, a foundational civic insight….
How This University’s Equity Agenda Is Upending a Small California Town
…in advancing social justice. This is doubly ironic, as the end result is the same: locals are being displaced by Cal Poly’s equity-based mission, which is, in fact, antithetical to…
Top Medical Schools Teach Weight Inclusivity, Racial Justice, Report Says
…political activism and embed social justice into the curriculum. However, UNC School of Medicine spokesperson Alan Wolf told the College Fix via email that the “task force was disbanded years…
DEI on Campus? It’s a Protection Racket
…in the social justice package that attacked universities as somehow guilty of all this. The summer of 2020 provided a window of opportunity for the grifters to enter academia en…
‘Globalizing the Intifada’ Targets Western Civilization
…take a course in “Social Justice”—a seemingly neutral term that disguises its real objective. As expressed on the webpage of the John Lewis Institute of Social Justice, established at CCSU…
What Costs $55 Million? CA’s Restorative Justice Program Teaches Prisoners About ‘White Supremacy’
…Restorative Justice, promoting the concept as a superior alternative to the traditional system of “punitive justice.” According to the training, punitive justice contains harmful qualities such as: Disposability Linearity Cancel…
The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism in the U.S.
…and grossly understate leftist/Islamist transgressions. Nowadays, the most virulent form of anti-Semitism aims to free Israel of Jews. It is the form observed on elite college campuses, pretending to social…
The Emptiness of ‘Anti-Semitism Studies’
…a “bogus pipeline”) and, paradoxically, becomes an inversion of what the field stands for: anti-Semitism enshrined as social justice. The replication crisis that affected psychology in the past decade, for…
DHS Warns of Domestic Terror Threat—Universities Could Be Ground Zero
…social justice claims. Law professors will routinely misinterpret the Constitution and completely misrepresent normal court procedure to advance their social and political ideology. Iranian retaliation runs the risk of being…
All Men Are Created Equal but They Are Not Equal in Any Other Way
…repellent. Amesbury misrepresents Robert’s view. His aim is not equity but justice, which is quite proper for a Supreme Court justice. It is not that equal opportunity will result in…
MIT Canceled DEI—Just Kidding
…action – action that values and welcomes each community member and their unique experiences and perspectives.” Well, action really means a commitment to left-wing causes, namely social justice, the LGBT…
The Activists Graduate—and Influence Everything
…social justice agenda, and life will wear that veneer away pretty quickly. But he sees a deeper issue. Even if activism fades, Columbia’s graduates leave with glaring educational gaps. Wood,…
Harvard and the Birth of Lawfare
…themselves with politicians, believing that they are serving justice by aiding those political interests that they assume represent a higher social objective, which justifies enactment by judicial diktat. Economists sometimes…
Unequal Outcomes for Equity Advocates at Harvard
…are not only due for a much-needed purge, but are increasingly revealing themselves to centers of nothing more than Marxist indoctrination dressed up as racial justice. Last January, Harvard’s former…
This Is the Degree Behind the DEI Takeover of Campus Life
…retired and were replaced by social justice warriors, and that’s a problem. But I’ll end by again asking the question I asked a couple of weeks ago—if DEI is a…
They Drop the Chants but Miss the Canon
…company with radicalized fellow students and woke faculty may have given the majority no more than a veneer of sympathy with the social justice agenda, and life will wear that…
The Chicago Principles Took a Sick Day at UChicago’s Anti-Semitism Roundtable
…themselves. Even then, Rokem seemed to imply, Jews were invested in harming indigenous populations in ways that did not abide by social justice standards. When the panel was asked what…