Re-Educating Whites on Campus
…“facilitated” by, SJSU Sociology Professor Susan Murray, whose professional preoccupation seems to be a social science version of racial navel-gazing. From her web page: White culture, white racism, and white…
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Universities, Free Speech and the Rise of the Spit-Viper Left
…important to realize just how far this newly emergent Left has strayed from the American Left of the immediate post-WWII decades. During the Cold War, it was often Social Democrats…
Professor Laura Kipnis–She Faced Title IX Charges for Writing an Essay
…had, they’re very attentive to issues about minorities, about discrimination, about social justice, about using language that would make minority people feel stigmatized—any kind of minorities. I remember a discussion…
DePaul—The Worst University for Free Speech?
…such criticism was muted, and for many who are still around, it is pointed to as a great step forward in the school’s mission of promoting inclusivity and social justice….
Racial Preferences–Time to End Them?
…usually measured by income or assets—but disadvantage can be social, not just economic; they are not always congruent and social disadvantage is harder to define and measure. Related: 25 Years…
The Real Defense of Charles Murray: Truth Not Free Speech
…noisy social justice warriors can briefly summarize the core argument of Coming Apart? Here’s a trick question: what does Coming Apart say about African Americans? (Answer: nothing, it’s only about…
Crime But No Punishment at Middlebury?
…plasticity; the social origins of inequality; and the possibility of engineering our institutions to create complete social justice. *Murray’s 1994 argument that intelligence is mostly fixed at birth runs afoul…
The Bubble at Middlebury
…to admit that ours is not so much a middle-class country any longer. Murray observes that our meritocracy based on productivity typically talks Sixties liberationism and social justice and might…
Can Sociology be Saved?
…to President Donald Trump. The increases in sociology undergraduate majors has more to do with student fascination with criminology and criminal justice concentrations within the sociology major than it does…
Punishing College Sports Teams
NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues we are witnessing an internal war over what in fact is a university’s core sacred value: is it truth? Or social justice? If it…
The Campus Left Discovers Free Speech
…it is a social justice crusade, interested as much in promoting a left-wing, globalist counter-culture as it is discovering truth through inquiry. That this model might be imperiled by such…
Enough of the College-for-Everyone Agenda
…college campuses that young people become imbued with such progressive notions as social justice, white privilege, sustainability, intersectionality, anti-capitalism, institutional racism, microaggressions and more. On many campuses, intellectually weaker students…
Will Georgetown Remain a Catholic University?
…encouraged undergraduate students to help expand abortion rights as a social justice issue. Collaborating with the dissident Catholics for Choice, Law Students for Reproductive Justice, a student law school organization…
The Dangerous Rise of ‘The New Civics’
…political advocacy. Civic engagement, global learning, and so on, all are forms of service-learning. Social Justice, Progressive Policies Justified by the Putative Sufferings of Designated Victim Groups: Social justice aims…
Add Babson to the List Of Campus Hoaxes
…colleges — including Babson and Wellesley — are committed. Quickly, the word spread via social media that the pair had engaged in racist and homophobic slurs, including a targeted visit…
How a University Moved from Diversity to Indoctrination
…of Buzzwords Like Dispositions and Social Justice The university may have a social mission to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion, even in the name of “social justice” (which Jonah Goldberg…
Do We need a Watchlist for Ideological Professors?
…social psychologist at the University of Central Oklahoma who wrote on the Psychology Today site that the HXA statement “is an example of being out of touch with conservative students…
How Colleges and Universities Foster “Hate Culture”
…Israel’s actions in Palestine. Fostering strong social identities is a recipe for group conflict. Colleges prime social identities in a number of ways. For example, we strengthen social identity when…
Did ‘Deplorable’ Prof Unmask Extreme PC Culture at NYU?
…job, thanks to the humorless, Social Justice Warrior-brand of campus culture run amok and a misunderstanding about a Twitter account. Enmeshed in a conspiracy — thinly disguised as sympathy —…
What the Feds Have Done to Colleges and Schools
The Obama administration has repeatedly violated civil liberties on campus. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has been the chief culprit, but the Department of Justice has played…
College Faculties, Heavily Tilted Toward the Left, Shun Diverse Viewpoints
…making those who were already leaning that way into Social Justice Warrior types, the students who have been responsible for so much turmoil on campuses in recent years. What is…
The Gender Lobby Guns for Toronto Professor
…they tolerate your deviance without too much aggression.” A Radical Fringe He attributes his concerns regarding the Ontario Human Rights Commission to “social justice warrior-type activists [being] over-represented in the…
Vandals Wreck a Pro-Life Display at Marquette
…hangers were thrown around. The administration, not known for standing up to Social Justice Warriors on campus, issued a vapid free -speech statement but took no action. The Feminist campus…
Universities Torn Between Truth Seeking and Social Justice
…universities make much greater and more explicit commitments to social justice, often including mandatory courses and training for everyone in social justice perspectives and content. Now that many university presidents…
The Attack on Heterosexual Sex on Campus
…to prosecute (and improve conviction rates against) more and more people has dangerous implications for the fundamental principles of justice, and for basic freedoms. The situation as things stand, he…
Killer Clowns on Campus? A Sign of Moral Panic
…emerge when rapid social change threatens the status quo and society’s norms and values are changing so quickly that people cannot easily adjust to new societal demands. In the face…
Harvard’s New Diversity Veto: “I Don’t Feel I Belong”
…with passion, grace, and growing resolve that ‘Black Lives Matter’ and to call for justice, for ally-ship, and for hope.” (Note what happened. Khurana gave Harvard’s backing to a controversial…
Conservative vs. Liberal, Plato vs. Descartes
…be a social animal, oriented around preserving and enhancing our species by living according to our social instincts. We’re happiest when we devote ourselves to family, community, and country, and…
The Age of Liberal Education Is Ending
…into one of the grand old buildings on campus and defaced ten historical portraits of distinguished Brown personages from centuries past. These “social justice warriors” spray-painted one large white letter…
Catholic Colleges Define Down Their Catholic Identity
…absolute requirement.” The problem with mandating a commitment to social justice is that students and faculty are often mandated to agree with the ways in which social justice is defined…