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…
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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…
Are All Men Really Like That?
…than 78% of the victims are men. The criminal justice system In addition to discussing the perspectives of victims, it is also important to consider the injustice arising from stereotypes…
Disrupting Campus Speakers Is Not Just A Free-Speech Problem
…for sure, invoking a different external power that might best be called “Social Justice.” To them, Social Justice authorizes shout-downs, mob actions, and beatings as acts of piety that display…
Protecting Academic Freedom Through All the Campus Smoke
…fighting wildfires. I passed up that career in favor of the far more practical training in social anthropology. But sometimes it seems I still ended up in the business of…
The Roots of Our New Civil War: Tocqueville vs. Gramsci
…bench. He was joined by Justices Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas. Justice Kennedy attacked the majority view that the actions of the 10-year-old boy constituted “gender discrimination.” American Enterprise Institute scholar…
Why I’m Leaving the Political Science Association
…professional endeavor is a pitched battle for social justice waged against the dark forces of tradition and privilege, the takeover of APSA is just another point on the road to…
What Damore’s Memo Taught Google
…higher education. That’s where it grows.” Training scientists and engineers to focus on the analysis of data rather than social justice and implicit bias is clearly problematic. Gender disparities in…
Yes, Campus Indoctrination is Real
…the abstract, but that figure might also signal the degree to which activism aimed at advancing progressive ideas of “social justice” had become a baseline social attitude for late Millennials…
Here’s Why Public Colleges Could Face Defunding
…prudence, practical wisdom, which called for pursuing moral outcomes by shrewdly assessing concrete situations. Though he sympathizes with the campus activists’ social justice goals, deBoer also criticizes the willful blindness…
An Anti-Koch Rampage at Wake Forest
…Wake Forest, the left invests heavily in spreading preconceived ideas. In classes, many faculty members love to impart their notions about social justice, institutional racism, the evils of capitalism, and…
Here’s What Happens as Campuses Turn Further Left
…of the most influential people in academic social psychology do so suggests that this ideology is entrenched in their field. ‘Social Justice’ an Entrenched Ideology And there are signs that…
How Schools Create Social Justice Warriors
…emphasizes “empathy and wildlife preservation.” The trend is long overdue, say people interviewed in the story. “For every book about social justice, I’d like to see 50 published,” says the…
Napolitano and the Decline of Berkeley
…the form of affirmative action admissions—a policy designed to legitimate the university on the grounds of “social justice.” Elite universities continue some meritocratic recruitment; if they didn’t they couldn’t maintain…
Student Grievance: Righting Imaginary Wrongs
…creates a new social reality. But no one calls this the social construction of grievance. No; it’s simply called reality, and presented as if it were a fact of contemporary…
When Universities Go Out of Control
…Saturday night in 1910 to vindicate the virtue of Southern Womanhood? What’s at work in the campus eruptions is not a virtue or social justice; it has nothing whatever to…
Angry Students Turn on Another Progressive Prof at Evergreen
…protect their cohort of mischievous social justice warriors. Those mobs threatening conservative speakers and insufficiently enthusiastic progressive professors are a badge of honor for the college presidents whose greatest fear…