…norms are all simply social constructs (an assumption that justifies virtually unlimited government intervention necessary to achieve the global citizen’s understanding of sexual justice); and to “sustainability” (which assumes that…
…non-fiction books about social justice. The strains of blank verse will not be coming from the EPA directives. Nor will students enjoy gentle laughter from Barbara Ehrenreich’s socialist polemics. As we lose…
…the Director of Diversity Recruitment, the Director of the Diversity and Social Justice Project, the Director of the aforementioned Days-Massolo Center, the Associate Dean of Students for Multicultural Affairs, among…
…expressed surprise that a major college president could hold “such strange historical views,” the Emory campus, social media, and lefty blogs erupted in a ballistic paroxysm of opprobrium. His column,…
…in Texas Alas, a five-justice majority of the Supreme Court ruled in the 1978 Bakke case that Title VI doesn’t mean what it says – that Congress didn’t intend to…
…of core knowledge does them a disservice. Prep schools should seize their chance to preserve humanistic learning, rather than ape the superficial social justice posturing of the academy. …
As a staffer with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in the early 1970’s, would-be Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. penned his historic, if awkwardly titled, memo, “Attack on…
…students would be tearing each other apart with their crude and ignorant biases. The Diversity Committee of Phillips Exeter, Andover’s even older sibling in New Hampshire, “promote[s] social justice and…
…theory, social justice, anti-capitalism, and class envy against the rich by public education…. The high school textbook used by my granddaughter in 2008, United States History: In the Course of…
…Tamiment Institute document “the history of progressive politics” and to focus “on the relationship between the Cold War abroad and the struggle for progressive social change at home.” The very…
…On a panel entitled “Using Oral History for Social Justice Activism,” scholars look at their partnership with “activists” seeking to undermine “the dominant historical narrative.” Yet the “narrative” that these…
…of college students are capable of engaging the kinds of big questions–questions of truth, responsibility, justice, beauty, among others–that were once assumed to be at the center of college education.” …
…at the highly competitive UCLA possess. Furthermore, National Dream U., unlike UCLA, had an ideological litmus test for admission: “a commitment to immigrant/labor rights and social justice.” The Huffington Post…
…Applicants, according to the college, “must show how they will use their studies to promote human rights and social justice through community activism and/or political advocacy.” What academic training does…
…Unless your political views are sufficiently progressive, you won’t be admitted to NDU. According to NDU’s website, all applicants must “demonstrate a commitment to immigrant/labor rights and social justice.” Yes,…
…Justice departments have launched a campaign of intimidation and coercion against school systems scattered around the country. The approach often turns Orwellian. When Federal officials investigate a school, Macdonald finds,…
…that justify admitting the academically marginal, rest assured, the village will be recruited, trained and then celebrated as champions of social justice. Our side just lacks the stomach to outlast…
…enforces restrictions on free speech and assembly, laws that criminalize homosexual conduct, and severe penalties for those who run afoul of its criminal-justice system. Back in New Haven, however, Yale…
Based on “new findings involving behavioral genetics,” reports the Chronicle of Higher Education, a growing clump of contemporary social…
…Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but their carefully reasoned brief provides grounds for Justice Kennedy or even Justice Breyer to join the Court’s conservatives and scale back the virtually open-ended use of…
…the 1960s, university-based social science research began altering this understanding. To condense a long story, empirically-based quantitative social science research needed a simple, clear-cut measure of “middle class,” and utilizing…
…of the students, or more useful information about what is really happening, and what work of significant academic and social importance is being done, at the various schools within the…
…mission of the discipline. (Many instead enter black studies as paternalists, seeking knowledge for knowledge’s sake, or to receive social or economic capital.) Nor is it a positive development at…
…and largely imaginary spirit of social unity. The diversiphile version of that injunction is, “Celebrate Diversity!” The brand new, freshly conceived C&C version seems to be “Celebrate Community!” More Euphemisms,…
…return to the first half of the 19th century to show how utopian writings (especially Marxism) promoted social change. “Social justice,” they insist, “begins with a Utopian blueprint,” not “facts.”…
…in economics, engineering and the natural sciences, 54 percent of black men and 51 percent of black women ended up switching to the humanities or another social science. The campus…
…“When individual faculty members and sometimes even whole departments decide that their aim is to advance social justice as they understand it rather than to teach the subject that they…
…Breyer) remain from Grutter; based on her opinion in Ricci, Justice Sotomayor is much more committed to preferences than was Justice Souter, and Justice Kagan has shown little indication that…
…“Human Rights and Social Justice,” “Disability and Employment Policy,” and “The White Image in the Black Mind.” Other disparities that undergo scrutiny include the high proportion of minorities in jail…
…judges and perhaps the Supreme Court will ultimately have to decide whether Ravi used social media as many immature 18-year-old pranksters would, not like a hostile homophobe, or whether New…