What I Learned When Students Tried to Cancel Me
…Feminism also has drawn conclusions about biology and social life: social roles have no basis in biology and there are no biological differences between males and females; rather, social roles…
…Feminism also has drawn conclusions about biology and social life: social roles have no basis in biology and there are no biological differences between males and females; rather, social roles…
…loathe Trump. You are a good person. And your ascent in a super-selective system doesn’t undermine your social sympathies—it reinforces them, for this is what smart people believe. Liberalism is…
…[Related: “Belling the DIE Cat”] Given the incompatibility between the values of liberal social justice and critical social justice, it is time for Americans to fashion similar compromises. Those of…
…topics as social justice, critical race theory, and intersectionality. Remarkably, Ohio State might be the worst offender in the nation—surpassing even such progressive bastions as the University of California, Berkeley….
…procedures Lhamon insists upon are back in place. [Related: “The ‘Social Justice Factory’ and Biden’s Title IX Regulations”] Lhamon’s new rules may also make it impossible for legal activists to…
…by the dictates of an intellectual oligarchy as by those of an autocrat.” – Patrick Arthur Devlin, The Enforcement of Morals “In the social domain, the restraints that protect privacy…
In my sixth year as a professor—the same year that Barack Obama’s Department of Justice reshaped Title IX into a tool to police political speech on campus—a student filed a…
…about obesity in light of a higher pursuit of social justice. Indeed, WC4BL advocates for a “redistribution of power and resources,” and “unlearning toxic medical knowledge and relearning medical care…
…academic achievements on social media and ostracized me for years, and nothing was ever done about it. I was, therefore, forced to turn to social media to respond to this…
…will reveal plenty of progressive buzzwords, such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), anti-racism, and social justice. Take, for instance, the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE),…
…to destroy all the academic disciplines by staffing them with commissars and by forcing them to pursue such euphemistically defined goals as “social justice,” “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” and so-called…
…imposition and “the use of social engineering to solve real and imagined problems.” Although Krylov’s piece provides many excellent insights into how totalitarian regimes use ideology to restrain open inquiry,…
…majority by definition do average work, are also an impediment to the goals of social justice. In most of the humanities and social sciences—especially the overtly political “Studies” fields—rigor has…
…handout, and the schools happily oblige. Today’s universities have infantilized their students, and nowhere is this child-like dependency more apparent than when students fight for “social justice.” Even a bake…
…runaway expense growth in “deans” and staff for every conceivable social and political indulgence. Are there any solutions? There are solutions, which begin with questioning accepted practices. This is the…
…now, readers are aware of the ideological cancer that has infected universities: critical social justice, also known as wokeism. During the pandemic, it was administrators, not faculty or students, who…
…bring from their lives the raw materials, or as philosopher Karl Popper termed it, the “vital substrate,” of individual and social experience and interests. This is a view of law…
…expired on race-conscious admissions and that it can no longer be tolerated. Justice Thomas expressed this view in his Grutter concurrence in 2003. He quoted Justice Harlan’s dissent in Plessy…
The Chronicle of Higher Education (CHE) remains steadfast in its support of social justice and liberal politics. In a typical op-ed entitled “The Right-Wing Attempt to Control Higher Ed: Demolishing…
…manage political or social disagreements in the future. When asked if they agree or disagree with the statement, “Our American way of life is disappearing so far that we may…
…the U.S. population as a whole, but there are also more centrist students on campus than there are in the nation’s population. The social justice–laden narratives that are pervasive on…
…search for universal truth. It argues that the subjective identities of oppressed groups must be “made real” so that they can empower themselves and fight for social justice. This means…
…the Constitution and continue the American experiment. Consider the enthusiasm for “equity” as the new metric for social change: Equity as action. Social and economic justice and racial equity requires…
…if they do not repeat identity politics talking points, and they fear social isolation if they are attacked as enemies of “social justice.” Professors fear both students and administrators, especially…
…or even a formal complaint of harassment. Campus life now resembles walking on eggshells; paranoia meets the quest for social justice. These impressions are confirmed by what colleges themselves report….
…the social-justice theme: For example, calls to decolonize higher education and academic disciplines ask those of us in dominant groups not only to update and change our curriculum and syllabi…
…about “anti-racist pedagogy,” “whiteness,” and “decolonizing the classroom.” According to the “anti-racism” guide, university teaching must be oriented toward social justice, decolonization, and “teaching for Black lives.” UCSD’s EDI Office…
…minor in social justice that is geared toward graduating students for activist careers after saturating them in Critical Race Theory (CRT). Perhaps even worse than the teaching of DEI concepts…
…environmental racism; climate justice; genomic justice; war technologies; medicine; public health; governance of science and technology; science policy; criminology, surveillance, and policing; border control; educational technologies; new media studies; critical…
…is a double-edged sword. Students are not saddled with the useless social justice courses that many now have to take at traditional institutions. But is it right for one’s curriculum…