‘New York Times is pure propaganda.’ Agreed.
…would realize that “social justice rhetoric is the new Birkin bag: It’s not meant to lift the vulnerable up; it’s designed to keep them out.” I doubt NYT will ever…
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‘Teaching Sociology’ Is an Ideological Nightmare
…in a univocal ideological vein. “Social justice,” “mindfulness,” “a compassionate orientation,” “an emancipatory project,” “a trauma-informed and survivor-centered pedagogy,” and “a radical critique of society for the purpose of reducing…
Social Dualism and the Problem of Archaic Inequality—Part I
…quest for justice so much as its precondition. In his essay “Limited Access Orders,” which introduces In the Shadow of Violence: Politics, Economics, and the Problems of Development (2013), American…
Harvard Dean Bobo’s Appeal to Institutional Loyalty Falls Short
…conflate the two, it’s easy to imagine conflicts arising. For example, a university might decide to stop teaching a traditional liberal art like philosophy or might prioritize social justice at…
My Surgeon Might be a Diversity Hire!
…Sailer of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) reported that the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine was caught executing its very own social justice playbook—translation: favoring race…
LA Community College District Institutes DEIA Confessionals
…list venial and mortal sins, the DEIA form inserts oppression and marginalization. Respondents are asked to grapple with the evil of the world and man’s fallibility through a social justice…
What I Learned from Being Charged with Blasphemy at the Air Force Academy
…challenging ideas that require students to think outside the boxes into which they were born. Ironically, suppressing such diversity in the name of critical social justice, identity politics, or Woke…
Inflation Is Not a Monetary Phenomenon
…authors called “distributive justice.” By contrast, and in theory at least, the other two classical modes of justice, criminal and civil, are simple. With criminal justice, you figure out who…
Reviving the Conscious Presence of the Social Contract in America
In the heart of every democracy lies a sacred covenant; an unspoken agreement that binds together the fabric of society, ensuring harmony, justice, and progress for all. This covenant, often…
Is Plagiarism Now the Sincerest Form of Flattery?
…at the university and her $900,000 plus presidential salary. She even won the Faculty Award for her commitment to social justice and DEI at Harvard’s black graduation celebration last month….
The Kirkpatrick Doctrine and Domestic Policy
…when the justice system is abused in order to crush political opposition, then it’s time to consider alternative ways of defending the Constitution. Mugging cannot become the first order of…
Censure and Sensibility at USC
…professed commitment to “diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice.” I am an unreconstructed, libertarian-leaning conservative who disagrees with most and possibly all of President Folt’s worldview because she and the…
Colleges Are Waging War Against Men
…the federal government, to make men on campus feel like second-class citizens. Star Chamber Justice in Sexual Misconduct Cases The U.S. Department of Education in 2011 issued a fatwa…
Book Review: Beyond Grievance Politics
…racial invective, primarily targeting white people in the name of social justice—the two racisms share more in common with each other than with the colorblind ideal: “Neoracists and white supremacists…
The Baby Talk of “Inclusion and Belonging:” Higher Education is Not a 6th Grade After-School Club
…occasion and can justify almost any “social justice” boondoggle. It is the lead-in mantra for what is known in cults as “love-bombing.” All cults use a variant of “love bombing”…
Reverberations of 1774’s Intolerable Acts
The Administration of Justice Act and the Massachusetts Government Act, two of the four Intolerable Acts, became law on May 20, 1774. The Administration of Justice Act allowed a royal…
Against Democracy in Education: Reading, Writing, Shooting, and Smoking in Tocqueville, Jefferson, and Palafox
…charitable instinct that drives social justice and wealth redistribution. But most Americans are pragmatic, focused on material advancement rather than the theories behind constitutions and free markets. Thus, they’re susceptible…
No, Mr. Mayor, Outside Organizers Are Not Responsible for Student Radicalism
…equity, and inclusion” manifestations of the “social justice” ideology, leading to the official implementation of reverse racism, reverse sexism, and segregation. Discrimination against “oppressors” is not only tolerated; it is…
What Lies Behind Student Pro-Hamas, Anti-Israel, and Anti-Semitic Uprisings?
…these bases is not strong. Something else must be at work. By far, the dominant ideology in universities is the far-leftist conception of “social justice,” generally defined and implemented as…
Time for Our Counterculture
…Bruce regals them with his failed efforts to seduce a non-binary social justice warrior who angrily demands assurances that having sex is eco-friendly and bio-sustainable. Ditto for the power of…
DEI Bureaucrats Get One-Way Ticket Off Campus
…to instill artificial guilt in them so that they might be recruited for “social justice” crusading work. The microaggression is the ultimate tool of those afflicted with paranoid personality disorder….
Identity Crisis at Middlebury
…current support of race-based social justice ideology, itself indistinguishable from the eugenics initiatives for which Mead is being erased? In the lawsuit, Middlebury College boldly argued that the Mead family…
Stacy Hawkins, I Said So
…of being an agent in a grand campaign for social justice. That campaign, in turn, undermines our freedoms, not least intellectual freedom. “Diversity” as a concept is of recent historical…
Top of Mind: Reflections on Pro-Palestinian Protests
…dismantled by the New York City Police Department the following day. Columbia University Apartheid Divest spearheaded the campus occupation in partnership with Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice…
Closing DEI Offices Is Not Enough
…“There will be no business as usual while Sarah Lawrence remains complicit in genocide.” One of the speakers, a digital humanities librarian, presented a talk entitled “Justice-Oriented Scholars in an…
Progressive Overreach and the Procrustes Impulse
…Challenge: Detering the Social Justice Procrustes Mindset Our Constitution embraces free speech. Visions of social justice are welcome but once they are enabled with the power of the state and…
The Baffling ‘Bull’ Behind Title IX
…Social Justice Attitudes” identified particular statements most closely associated with wokeness. Interestingly, our local survey study found that two particular beliefs—along with gender and political identity—predicted individuals’ perceptions of environmental…
Two Cultures Revisited
…for privilege for her side—women. Similarly, Nature, one of the top two general science journals, has published no less than 19 editorials advocating social justice in science.[8] Social-justice pledges have…
To Renew Faith in Education, Look to Passover and Resurrection
…no objective truth or goodness to be had. The fickle and constantly moving goalposts of social justice and identity politics are the fruits of removing these very notions of objective…
A Healthy Culture in a Healthy Economy
…from worship. They worry that it neglects the higher things of virtue, justice, and community. In sum, they worry that championing free enterprise capitalism elevates lower material goods over higher…