Feminism’s Greatest Achievement
…be corrected to ensure equal representation of males. In the final anthropology senior seminar that I taught, there were eighteen females and no males. As for the professorial staff, my…
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Two Essays on Boston University’s Decision to “Pause” Admissions to Doctoral Programs
…Wiseblood Books in January 2025. The second is by Peter Wood, President of the National Association of Scholars and a former professor in Boston University’s graduate anthropology program, where he…
Trump’s Economic Policy Is Straight Out of UChicago
…at Chicago, on economics. The word “capitalism” is often used derogatorily as a term in anthropology, political science, and even law. Indeed, one of the biggest differences between President-elect Trump…
Did Hard Grading Spur UNC Greensboro’s Cuts?
…and Statistics, the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Department of Anthropology. In numerous emails over the past weeks and months, Drs. Tom Lewis—math—Anatoly Miroshnichenko—astronomy—and Robert Anemone—anthropology—set forth strong…
Both Sides Threaten Democracy—It’s Time Leftist Professors Admit It
…pledges supporting racial and ethnic quotas. Woke bureaucrats drove out award-winning San Jose State University Anthropology Professor Elizabeth Weiss for her allegedly bigoted research showing that Native Americans have not…
Native Americans Want Their S**t Back
…artifacts from past peoples to related modern tribes. Relatedness was to be determined through a preponderance of evidence, using data from archaeology, anthropology, history, biology (e.g., DNA and craniometrics), geography,…
Phantom Voyagers: An Invitation to Read Robert Dick-Read
…German anthropology, and social Darwinism, which were used to justify colonialism, Eugenics in Germany, England, and America, and the Holocaust. The Hamitic Hypothesis has been the topic of a fine…
Zero Republicans Found in Seven Humanities Departments at NC State University
…science, social work, public administration, and sociology and anthropology departments. The most lopsided department was History with 29 Democrats and one Republican. The Fix also reviewed four business school programs….
How UCLA Embraced “Judenfrei”: The Willful Ignorance of Fundamentalist Professors
…historical roots dating back millennia, but instead as “settler colonialists” who deserved what they got. Less noted is how these questionable ideologies colonized non-rigorous disciplines like Anthropology, whose chief professional…
California Legislative Meeting Starts with Prayer, Ends with Burying Science
Last month, California assemblyman James C. Ramos started a state legislative meeting with a prayer; it was appropriate for a meeting that would end with the funeral of anthropology in…
The Art of AI: Tackling Complex Problems in Interdisciplinary Courses
…studies, anthropology, political science, criminal justice, economics, math, statistics, philosophy, education, and so on. And then, there is the story that can be pulled out of the data. The story…
Social Dualism and the Problem of Archaic Inequality—Part II
…phase of collective development? We might destroy ourselves. We might more easily succumb to an external threat. Claude Lévi-Strauss’s collection of essays, Structural Anthropology (1963), includes a reflection on bands…
On the Warpath: Elizabeth Weiss Exposes the Fall of Academic Rigor and the Rise of Cancel Culture in New Book
…the Campus contributor. Her book reveals how the field of biological anthropology, which includes the study of skeletal remains to reconstruct the past, and forensic anthropology, which brings justice to…
Deboning Anthropological Science: A Boneheaded Decision
In the last year, there has been a rapid increase in actions that involve removing human remains and photographs of human remains from anthropology and archaeology classrooms, conference halls, publications,…
Affirmative Action for Intellectual Diversity?
…and social science “studies” since they are as deeply embedded with Marxism as the aforementioned. For example, sociology, anthropology, history, political science, psychology, criminology, and geography must be disassembled. Economics,…
The New 2024 Law School Rankings: The Sociology of Law
…are crucial to understanding the meaning of their legal language and its basis in history, anthropology, science, as well as evidence, textualism, and methods of pleading, including delict and tort.[8]…
Saving Free Speech
…in not-so-progressive Maine, several faculty members have reported being intimated by the school’s DEI bureaucracy and activist students. One Anthropology professor was reprimanded by the school’s Dean of Faculty for…
Philip Carl Salzman: Who Is to Blame for the Anti-Semitism of Young Americans?
…Department of Anthropology, has hired several staff members who are advocates of the Palestinian narrative about the “nakba” and who reject any challenge to it. McGill anthropology students, far from…
The Evolution of Christmas
…taught in modern anthropology courses, and you’ll find that the number of scholarly papers that cite his work is surprisingly low. A partial review of Frazer’s absence in modern anthropology…
Curbing DEI in Ohio
…research and 33% contribution to DEI.” These approaches produced remarkable discrimination. For a position in medical anthropology with 67 applicants, all four finalists were “women of color.” Ohio State is…
Empty Graves: The Genocide that Wasn’t
…has been used in forensic anthropology and archaeology for years, can be an extremely useful tool, especially to help avoid the destruction of materials during excavation. In forensic cases, where…
Minding the Sciences — California Buries Science
…in the gutting of anthropology labs that teach students the skills of osteological identification needed for careers in medicine, cultural resource management, and forensic sciences. Forensic anthropologists and archaeologists have…
Multiculturalism Begets Tribalism: Hamas in Our Universities
…Human Rights, Thaqalayn Muslim Association, World Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies Association, The Students’ Society of McGill University Executive Team, The Anthropology Students Association, The Anthropology Graduate Students Association, Black…
Official Antisemitism Marks the Demise of Anthropology
…of both parts of cultural anthropology is to understand people and their lives around the world. [Related: “Anthropology in Ruins”] One of the great challenges to cultural anthropology as an…
The Future of AI?
…on ethics, human nature, peace, and justice, as well as a run-of-the-mill cultural anthropology class, I have studied how we often project dangers to humanity onto externalities rather than looking…
Nurture, Not Nature
…nature of other societies and cultures. As an undergraduate and graduate student of both American cultural anthropology and British social anthropology, I read with fascination how different nonindustrial cultures organized…
Apocalypto Now
…USAID: the United States Agency for International Development. [Related: “Anthropology in Ruins”] The other, perhaps more subtle, reason for this attack on Richard Hansen is the conclusions he comes to…
Teaching with a Chatbot: Persuasion, Lying, and Self-Reflection
…course, does it make a difference? A Turn to the Objective: How do we explain social and racial disparities? As an instructor of anthropology, I would likely de-emphasize the subjective…
The State of the University: An Anthropologist’s Perspective
…Yet, here in the trenches, it looks very different. Anthropology, as a field, is continuing down its destructive path. My university—San Jose State University (SJSU)—and many others like it are…
What I Learned When Students Tried to Cancel Me
…University Executive Team, The Anthropology Students Association, The Anthropology Graduate Students Association, World Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies Association, Black Students Network, Muslim Students Association, Students in Solidarity for Palestinian…