The Feds Make a Mess of Sex and Gender
…coherence isn’t what we require of federal agencies devoted to progressive social justice. Progress is what we expect. The “Dear Colleague” letter begins with a statement of seeming fact: Schools…
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A Champion of Free Speech Takes on the Muzzled Campus
…the colleges, fearing that students of different racial, religious, and social backgrounds would clash with one another, expanded the student-life bureaucracies to, in their view, keep the peace. Regardless of…
How Anthropology Was Corrupted and Killed
…a whole lot of people committed to “social justice” by celebrating one or another kind of victimhood. Calls for papers go out to those writing “anthropology fiction,” “lies that tell…
Race Baiting in the Name of Justice
…the system is for white people to acknowledge and shed their immense “privilege.” The event featured “social justice” topics, such as “White Women: Internalized Sexism and White Superiority,” and “White…
Why Is It So Hard Now to Read a Book?
…and social justice” – words constantly promoted by university administrators (and accompanied by an ever-expanding corpus of administrators tasked with overseeing these agendas) – or to protect the fragility of…
Title IX Tramples Free Speech and Fairness, So Now What?
…in the way of the feminist social justice agenda? Feminists Burnt by Feminism Alas, when we turn to the report itself, it is more the latter. The major problem that…
Charles Murray Insulted but Allowed to Speak
…him as “honest to a fault” — with an exceptionally humane, classical liberal approach to most social problems. At Virginia Tech, a group calling itself the Coalition for Justice fell…
The Power of Buzzwords, like ‘Dispositions” and ‘Social Justice’
…weeded out if they lacked commitment to the hard left. Indicators of a poor disposition were lack of commitment to “social Justice,” another buzzword whose meaning was never quite clear,…
BDS: Jew-Hating Propagandists on the March
…academics achieve in a lifetime.” But then he pivots to his real subject: his attack on the critics who say “left-wing social justice” is a threat to free speech. He…
Summer Reading for Freshmen: Unchallenging, Mediocre
…inclusion, injustice, intercultural understanding, local talent, meaningful, multiple disciplinary application, perspectives, powerful, readability, relevant, responsibility, sensitivity, shared experience, social justice, social responsibility, timely, and tolerance. (Critical thinking, ethics, and tolerance…
THE NORMALIZATION OF BAD IDEAS
…to enforce them. At the macro level, universities have adopted “social justice” as a supposed core mission, in the name of which policing of speech and behavior has become ever…
A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
…communities, becoming ever more committed to social justice, and ever less hospitable to dissenting views. I wanted to know if there was any political diversity in social psychology. So I…
How a Generation Lost Its Common Culture
…and educational goals composed of content-free processes and unexamined buzz-words like “critical thinking,” “diversity,” “ways of knowing,” “social justice,” and “cultural competence.” Our students are the achievement of a systemic…
State-Funded Law School Goes Partisan
…professor instead of their first libertarian, or when applicants with “social justice credentials” win scholarships over high-achieving conservatives. Brands like “social justice” and “compassionate” promise to sap higher education of…
How Your Tax Money Promotes Grievances
Oregon State University is launching a series of “social justice retreats” to “promote a campus dialogue about race and racism.” Translation: the university is sponsoring therapized programs to makes non-whites…
Campus Turmoil Begins in High School
…that this is some sort of justice — white males have enjoyed positions of privilege for centuries, and now they are getting a taste of their own medicine. But these…
How Political Correctness Corrupted the Colleges
…popular? One obvious one is that, far from being a society riddled with social injustice, the U.S. has made so much progress that such charges are cast routinely and fearlessly…
Limp Administrators Let the Angry Few Take Over
…students and cede control to leftist protesters. Given higher education’s track record, however, both developments are unsurprising. Universities have long preached the gospel of social justice through politicized degree programs,…
What Students Are Demanding Now
…speech to stop microaggressions and anti-protest remarks, and impose mandatory social-justice training for students and faculty. Walter Olson of Cato and Overlawyered.com compiled a list of demand highlights. They include:…
Do Corporate Donors Threaten Academic Freedom?
…by the Ford Foundation “diversity” programs, Joan Kroc’s gift of $200 million to fund “peace” and “social justice” programs at two universities and Jane Fonda’s $12.5 million to found a…
Yik Yak—Latest Target of the Anti-Free-Speech Left
…on anonymous politically-incorrect speech on campus, which they claim violates federal civil-rights laws such as Title IX. They claim they are concerned about “harassment” on anonymous social media applications like…
The AAUP Takes a Sharp Left Turn
…is to become “part of a social justice movement.” It is therefore not surprising that two days after I received the Fichtenbaum email, I received another from Gwendolyn Bradley, a…
The Coming Ideological Takeover of Music
…we read, the organization regards “the culturally narrow horizons of music study as nothing short of a social justice crisis.” And the emphasis on the “European classical repertory” is more…
Watch out for Anti-Rape Campaigns Run by Elitists
…Privileged people getting privileged justice — how progressive. And let me be clear about what’s meant by “justice” in this context. It’s not the “justice” of having an allegedly violent…
Appalachian State Takes Diversity Groveling to a New Low
…teamed up with campus groups that want to push for ever-more diversity (Appalachian Social Justice Educators, the Chancellor’s Student Advisory Board, and the Black Student Association) to get the administration…
‘Yes, the Kids Are Intolerant’
…finds that the younger generation perceives a tension between social justice and free speech that previous generations did not. Those under 40 who have a social justice orientation are generally…
The U. of Chicago’s Flawed Support for Freedom of Expression
…with our colleges and universities. To be sure, there is much in the statement that is attractive and endorsing it makes sense as a tactical move against “social justice warriors”…
College Scorecard: How Much Will You Earn?
…when I think about it, I see the complications. Some Haverfordians pursue self-sacrificial career choices. They spend their lives paying witness to social justice crusades that Don Quixote himself would…
UCal Regents Strike Back at Napolitano
…the expression of a common view of an important question in social policy. The common expression “America is the land of opportunity” might seem benign to most of us, but…
Weaponizing Title IX at Middlebury
…partner of the male student) eventually saw what was going on—and got up, retiring to her own room. The incident was, at the least, embarrassing; it threatened the social equilibrium…