Social Sciences and Wokeness: Why France Is a Special Case
…success is largely due to the fact that it defends causes rightly associated with progress and justice, but—and this is where it poses a problem—by making them systematic or even…
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The Return of Campus Encampments: Ideological Echo Chambers
…being taught in their classes. Beginning in the late 1960s, an era characterized by student strikes on campuses across the United States, Bowdoin College began integrating social justice themes into…
‘Eco-theater’ Princeton Course Has Students Write Climate Change Plays
…Equity + Environmental Justice,” was made private after the Fix emailed him. An emeritus professor of English at Emory University and a senior editor at First Things criticized the course…
It Is Time to Return to Reality-Based Knowledge
…or ideology, was labeled “social justice,” and the particular measures instituted to apply it were “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI). The underlying assumption was that all societies are based on…
‘A Slave to DEI’—Baylor Twists Scripture to Justify Slavery Memorial
…now as secular as any land-grant,” Jenkins wrote in March 2023. Jenkins rightly observed that as societal values shift toward secularism and social justice, these institutions face increasing legal and…
University of Virginia Professor Compares Kamala Harris’s Loss to ‘Violence of Chattel Slavery’
…eras of slavery and segregation, particularly in the Jim Crow south,” said Kevin Gaines, a UVA professor of civil rights and social justice. Gaines, moderator for the “Race, Gender and…
The AAUP Warns Against ‘Anticipatory Obedience’—But It Only Opposes Federal Power It Doesn’t Control
…entrenchment of left ideology in the universities are why major institutional reforms are necessary. Universities across the country were all too eager to over-comply when Obama’s Justice Department issued the…
Breaking Up with Accreditors: A Satirical Contract for Academic Freedom
…usage of terms like “social justice,” “micro-aggressions,” “cultural identities,” and “multigenerational trauma” to one per 100,000,000 pages of accreditation guidelines. Put Down the DEI Kool-Aid: Accreditors shall focus on fostering…
Sarah Lawrence’s Hollow Promises—’Inclusion’ Excludes Jews
…senior, or countless other Jewish students, for feeling unsafe. How can this student, or any openly Zionist Jewish student, thrive in a college environment when Students for Justice in Palestine…
No Borders, No Merit, No Justice: The Bizarre Philosophy of Our Intellectual Elite
…is a socialist foe of inequality, and Sandel is a follower of moral philosopher John Rawls, whose difference principle asserts, “Social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that…
Is It Time to Retire Social and Emotional Learning?
…“Feelings” Education—It Starts in Ed School] This follows EducationWeek’s “Special Report,” Social-Emotional Learning 2025: New Priorities Emerge, which compiled five articles on the topic: Does Social-Emotional Learning Really Work? Educators…
Ending Racial Preferences
…(SFFA) (600 U.S.181 (2023). Over the objection of the Biden-Harris Department of Justice, the Court found Harvard University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill violated the Equal Protection Clause…
Back to Stick Figures: How Woke Warriors Destroyed Anthropology
…Ethical Treatment of Human Remains has ruled that images and digital materials must be treated as parts of bodies—and, thus, not published in any public spaces, including on social media….
Federal Funding Shouldn’t Be Going to Woke University Programs
…Social Justice offices. Its social justice priorities are reflected in the courses advertised to students: “The Political Economy of Racism: Erasures, Slavery, Eviction, and Fables of Whiteness;” “Evolutionary Biology of…
Libraries: The Quiet DEI Indoctrinators
…university librarians, the American Library Association (ALA) proclaims its support for DEI thusly: Libraries are essential to democracy and self-government, to personal development and social progress, and to every individual’s…
Let’s Hear It From the Faculty
…altar of “social justice” and “equity.” Fortunately, we don’t just have anecdotes, which are powerful means of galvanizing passions but not well-suited, on their own, to inform our judgment and…
The Naval Academy Should Jettison Race-Conscious Admissions Policies
…But let’s consider the following: Almost 75 years ago, the man who eventually would become our Nation’s first Black Supreme Court justice, filed a legal brief with the United States…
Academic Accommodations Undermine Workplace Preparedness
Many, if not most, students attend university intending to enter the workforce upon graduation. But today’s climate of student-centered policies and social justice rhetoric often does the opposite. While much…
A Buckeye Collegiate Revolution: Higher Education Reform Bill Likely to Pass Senate
…our country. Each institute is insulated from control by woke-oriented progressives pushing leftist social justice, anti-capitalist, or racist agendas. Public confidence in our universities is at a low ebb, but…
Academic Freedom and Self-Censorship
…appear disadvantaged in these studies, but these studies are systematically mono-parametric and do not take into account factors other than ethnicity: economic and social level, education, etc. Along the same…
DEI Is Antisemitic
…do wrong? Why are they, in the DEI jargon, “white adjacent”? The answer is that they are a successful minority. This is offensive because the “social justice DEI” explanation for…
DEI Statements Erode the Diversity That Matters. Qualified Candidates Can’t Get Jobs.
…of qualified applicants who do not unequivocally conform to the prescribed approach to social justice. However well-intentioned, the statements function more as what one writer described as “compelled speech” than…
Mandating Meritocracy Is the Only Path to Sustainably Make Universities Great Again
…determined from social media, letters of recommendation, and/or the classic grapevine. By baked-in ideologies, I am referring to jobs with inherently progressive agendas. Professorships in “sustainability,” “social justice,” or “a…
A Crisis Averted is Not a Crisis Solved: DEI Reforms Face Resistance
…of American Studies, Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies as well as its American Studies and Social Justice majors—hurray! UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which houses these majors, explains…
Laurier’s Administrators Block Debate on Indigenous Ways of Knowing
…their universities focus on the search for truth, not on social justice and decolonization. Image of Laurier’s landmark sign, at the corner of King Street North and Bricker Avenue by…
Sedition U: Marxist Ideology Threatens American Democracy from Campus to Culture
…any political claim or action short of large-scale physical violence. They duplicitously claim they are just “progressives” pursuing “social justice.” Herbert Marcuse’s 1965 goal of “repressive tolerance,” suppressing non-Marxian perspectives…
K-12 Teachers Go Through the University Ideology Pipeline
…“the visual arts and arts integrated learning drive inquiry and investigation into history, social science, and social justice issues.” Nowhere in this course is it discussed exactly what students should…
Higher Ed Must Embrace Doubt
…far-left views on questions relating to class, identity, and social justice. And, in such a climate, the culture of open inquiry that should serve as an integral part of a…
Universities and the Battle for Ideological Supremacy
…of the Fox anchors has just been nominated Secretary of Defense. The party of the coasts is committed to social justice, the mainstream media, and international institutions. They believe that…
Academia’s Old Order is Crumbling
…truth-seeking, and virtuous citizenship—aligning education with workforce needs is, at the very least, pragmatic, if not overdue. Predictably, so-called elite institutions remain blind to their shortcomings, doubling down on social…