“Waste Studies”, Anyone?
…social justice,” as the website of the National Women’s Studies Association declares. That association cultivates a laundry list of overtly political issues, ranging from defending Hillary Clinton against supposedly unfair…
Search Results for: Social justice
What Does ‘Sustainability’ Have to Do With Student Loans?
…as an encompassing concept. It includes science, economics, and the social structure. And for many in the movement, the focus on social order is the basis for far-reaching attempts to…
Unsustainable? A Defense Of ResLife At Delaware
…social justice and civic engagement, and these are political values (albeit not very radical ones). I think these are good political values, and conservatives disagree, but that doesn’t matter. If…
Columbia’s 68 Celebration: Only Radicals Need Apply
…War and the drive for social justice, Niebuhr called for a mentality that could face good and evil in oneself and in others, and tragedy and hope, without caving into…
The Worst Campus Codeword
…often produce and perpetuate social inequalities. Even in its mildest form “social justice” puts schools in a position of judging the acceptability of students’ political and social opinions. Now the…
University Of The Absurd
…satisfies the University of California writing requirement. The course is a study in the social construction of individual identity and it surveys a range of social differences and stratifications that…
Soft Bias Against The Right
…promote social justice issues to their students. Why do so, when “Most social justice efforts probably have at least the implicit notion that making the world a fairer and more…
A Department Of Hillbilly Studies?
…“voices” of the forcefully silenced. Schools of Social Work and Education now require taking vows to advance “social and economic justice” in order to graduate. Hard-head Business Schools are hardly…
The Aristocratic Reign Of Group Preferences
…sake of ‘diversity’ are actually motivated” by a “commitment to social justice,” and that, “They would rightly defend affirmative action even if social science demonstrated uncontrovertibly that diversity (or its…
Angela Davis, Civil Rights Pioneer?
…encomiums to social justice and other left causes (from speakers such as Mary Frances Berry and Nikki Giovanni), but it’s still something of a surprise to find just how many…
I Pray That Sacrilege Is Protected
…of extensive investigations involving the top ten universities and three student case studies. The openly expressed and privately enforced requirements of “social justice” highlight the institutional oppression of thought enforced…
A Donkey At Berkeley
…Western, as is most manifest in its steadfast denial of the importance of ancestry, and its emphasis instead on universal values such as individual freedom and social justice. To the…
Educating for Citizenship at Brown University: An Essay In Honor Of Allan Bloom
…of social construction they preferred: decision making within social groupings should be collective decision making. This idea runs back to Aristotle’s state-centric idea that citizenship is a matter of “ruling…
Ed School Politics – Still A Problem
…that would-be teachers must have. “Social justice” is the most controversial of the dispositions sought. In its benign sense, “social justice” means a sense of fairness, honesty and a belief…
Do Rich White Kids Win With Affirmative Action?
…the best students who apply. That won’t satisfy the urge to promote their vision of “social justice.” Affirmative action doesn’t really accomplish anything, but it’s all they have and they…
First Place – Bloom Essay Competition
…reasonable, “Lockean” fashion – in other words, to have a social life – what results on elite campuses is a hyper form of liberal democracy, in which “Nobody really believes…
What Happened At Hamilton
…in series of jarring shenanigans orchestrated by the Kirkland Project (reincarnated post-Churchill as the Diversity and Social Justice Project), a well-funded campus left-wing activist group dedicated to the study of…
Creating Activists At Ed School
In 1997, the National Association of Social Work (NASW) altered its ethics code, ruling that all social workers must promote social justice “from local to global level.” This call for…
Schooling Activists
NAS today released an excellent report on the state of social work education at American colleges, “The Scandal of Social Work Education”. Talk of social activism pervades these schools from…
The “Fairness Doctrine” And Academia
…of the things that are wrong on our planet, or why “equity” and “social justice” are being denied to women and “minorities.” In short, it is widely acknowledged that there…
The Mystery Of The “Diversity Commitment”
…light, RWU’s embrace of diversity looks more doubtful. The three U.S. Supreme Court diversity decisions – Justice Powell’s 1978 Bakke opinion, Justice O’Connor’s 2003 Grutter opinion, and Justice Roberts’ 2007…
Professors And God: Any Connection?
…justice. The least religious professors were in biology, psychology, economics, political science and computer science. Research-oriented professors and faculty at elite institutions are significantly less religious than other academics. Only…
Dartmouth Alumni Resurgent
…Zywicki, Class of 1988 and a professor of law at George Mason University, entered the race as a petition candidate focused on ending a complex social engineering program called the…