The Corruption of Science by Social Justice
…such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health have infused science with popular notions of social justice. This corrupts science, damages public trust, and puts our…
…such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health have infused science with popular notions of social justice. This corrupts science, damages public trust, and puts our…
…of citing research from the last people who actually observed the potlatch and described it as a way to formalize social hierarchies, resolve bloody wars, or sacralize vast inequalities of…
…theory, “social justice” is now defined as the implementation of “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” But the initiatives for this did not come from the U.S. Congress or the Canadian Parliament….
…findings, published by the Manhattan Institute, are alarming. No Learning Environment is Insulated Goldberg and Kaufmann conceptualize left-wing cultural socialism as “Critical Social Justice” (CSJ) and operationalize CSJ through eight…
Colleges and universities seem obsessed with race and other social “identities.” Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) bureaucracies are often powerful on campus, and college staffs are sometimes required to swear…
…the quest to replace merit with so-called “equity.” There is, however, a more immediate psychological explanation. The energetic pursuit of social justice may be an addictive quest for euphoria—it feels…
“Key components of the [Lamat] Institute include intensive research instruction … and social justice discussions. In addition, a comprehensive mentoring professional development program is designed to encourage mentors and mentees…
…views about race, gender, racism, and social justice. Again and again, this fact is demonstrated by higher education DEI initiatives. By now, it should be obvious that diversity statements will…
…state legislatures (F29, F80). Meditating on a post-WWII and post-nuclear social order, Borges draws on the same mythological monster. As in the work of Milton and Hamilton, there’s something surreal,…
…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…