SUNY Has Adopted a Program to Hire Minority Professors
…have all contributed to perpetuating racism and injustice” has “always been an important goal” of the department, hobbled as it is by being “a field that is, to its detriment,…
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10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Counseling Master’s Program
…there has been a replication crisis in psychological research. The lack of integrity runs deep, and in the last decade or so research is increasingly dominated by critical social justice…
The Demise of Disparity Studies?
…Justice O’Connor’s plurality Croson opinion became the precedent influencing all subsequent preferential contracting litigation. In overturning Richmond’s 30 percent minority business procurement quota, she articulated multiple evidentiary rules that the…
Bootstraps and Bedlam Take Over Higher Ed
…vehicle for enforcing ideological conformity, particularly through “diversity, equity, and inclusion” mandates. Once a safeguard for academic standards, accreditation now often promotes divisive social justice ideologies while maintaining control over…
I Attended Hereticon
…to systemic racism or unfair systems, such as the justice system. Those who bring up such topics in modern academia will be called racists or eugenicists, perhaps even compared to…
Is Accreditation a Scam? The System Fueling Ideology in Higher Ed
…is that where universities and colleges fail to educate students’ in valuable skills, they make up for by indoctrinating kids in Social Justice ideology. Social Justice ideology is openly called…
Beyond Campuses: DEI Damages Intelligence Agencies
…their value as devices to promote “social justice,” Obama and Biden administration officials claim that DEI policies improve the performance of the IC. In 2021, I published an article that…
Pitt Gets $5 Million Taxpayer Grant to ‘Generate Evidence’ for ‘Racial Equity’ Brain Training
…address and assert one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors toward racial equity and justice,” according to the website. The program “employs systematic, highly-structured practices, to break down socialized, unconscious biases and…
Scientists in Charge? ‘I Can’t Think of Anything Worse’
…of the AAAS Center for Scientific Responsibility and Justice. Prof Lubbers gave what I thought was a pretty fair overview of the legal issues surrounding the decision, so that was…
Kamala Harris Will Ratchet Up Campus Censorship
…action, homosexuality, or gay marriage, or opinions about how to address sexual harassment or allegations of racism in the criminal justice system.” These broad definitions of hate speech aren’t based…
Detoxifying Toxicity in American Education
…Sexual, and Gender Identity Rainbow Flag Religion Restorative Justice Romantic Relationships Between Educators and Students Same-Sex Marriage Social Justice Social-Emotional Learning Special Needs Students Mainstreamed Student Discipline Toxic Masculinity Use…
American Progressivism v. Racial Justice: A Collision Course
…out government preferences based on race, the battle cry of racial justice collides with other goals of progressivism. The less conspicuous rancor between the progressive belief system and the struggle…
Higher Ed Bureaucrats Get Rich for Getting It Wrong
…disparaged the effort as “harmful,” “divisive,” and “inflammatory.” Garrett was also removed from the school’s diversity committee after questioning the school’s use of grant money on social justice initiatives. Student…
On Campus Safety, the Left Is Hopelessly Confused
…put, Democrats and their allies hold strange and incongruous views about criminals and crime, regularly robbing the Peter of campus safety to pay social-justice Paul. Looked at in toto, recent…
Introducing “Social Justice versus Social Science”
…Social Justice versus Social Science: White Fragility, Implicit Bias, and Diversity Training, a book that challenges these wrong, but prevailing ideas. Compiled and edited by Craig Frisby and Robert Maranto,…
How Do You Like Multiculturalism Now?
…the rest of the world that (allegedly) had previously only known peace, prosperity, environmental justice, and wisdom. To save the world (we now teach) everything Western must be destroyed, especially…
How the Modern Law School Promotes Political Division and “Lawfare”
…still seen as an instrument to pursue what is viewed as moral justice—or injustice—rather than as a moral quest or phenomenon in itself—i.e., the means/ends problem is not addressed. Posner…
Education Reform in the United States of Hispanic-America
…transmitted by each language. If we want to preserve freedom and justice, we ought to remind the incoming Hispanic population of the juridical, sociopolitical, and economic concepts that it has…
OPINION: Kennesaw State’s Costly Equity-Styled Salary Overhaul
…freedom of speech, academic freedom, and the removal of social justice ideology. I have been denied multiple times. In closing, I am by no means implying that economics professors were…
Sarah Lawrence College’s Answer to Anti-Semitism? Submit a Form and Move On
…notice about Students for Justice in Palestine’s upcoming “Hour of Solidarity with Palestine,” at which SJP invited students to “Join us to unpack the ongoing events in Palestine, understand the…
Law Schools Must Create a Culture That Promotes Viewpoint Diversity. Here’s How.
…demanding Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ removal from teaching in the wake of his concurring opinion in Dobbs. To their credit, administrators did not bow to this pressure. However, a…
The Courts Must Take Action on Educational Malpractice
…hires will support “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) initiatives in their research, teaching, and other duties. Accreditation boards are injecting DEI and social justice into the curriculum, faculty hiring decisions…
The AAUP Discredits Itself
…a conception of social justice supported by activist scholarship. To use the language of the Kalven Report, the university, in their view, is “the home and sponsor of critics,” but…
Why Are Race-Based Scholarships and Programs Suddenly Under Attack?
…Justice Brennan in Bakke: “Government may [use racial discrimination] when it acts … to remedy … past racial prejudice.” In other words, the left’s racism was socially acceptable—and therefore lawful—because…
When Women Ruled and Gentlemen Complied
…in the many Jesuits who become left-wing political activists. This Jesuit “social justice” mantra is a recalcitrant form of excessive charity that still stalks the Western world. By contrast, Ximena’s…
DEI’s Inevitable Descent into Legal Trouble
…Maryland diversity czars, DEI is grounded in “social justice principles,” “morally right and educationally sound.” Last month, the National Association of Scholars (NAS) Maryland Affiliate, a volunteer group of professors…
Our Teachable Moment: Is Anyone Learning Anything?
…positive law—international conventions and the Uniform Code of Military Justice—and natural law—from St. Thomas to Suarez, Grotius, and Vattel. My slogan is “fewer slogans, more study and conversation.” I’ve had…
The Art of AI: Tackling Complex Problems in Interdisciplinary Courses
…models. Figure 1. DALLE●2 AI image model. A joyful community (left); A depressed community (right) Figure 2. Triptych / Three Perspectives on Social Justice In sum, Aoun’s—and my own—recommendation to…
Women Lead Campus Protests, Men Outperform in Civic Literacy
…and 29 percent of women knowing the correct answer. Similarly, only 37 percent of students correctly identified John Roberts as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Here, the gender…
Calling on Gentlemen in Fairfax County
…to moderation and justice.” But Dunmore’s dissolution only made matters worse. The burgesses immediately reconvened at a local tavern and sent word that Virginia’s counties should elect delegates to meet…