A collection of 18 posts
A business-communications coach reflects on the connections between her college-era Marxist beliefs and the identity-based fixations that have come to dominate her industry.
In a new memoir, a former academic administrator explains how she led the ideological campaign to enshrine DEI as a ‘core mission’ at the University of California.
In their recruitment efforts, some schools now flat-out exclude white males who don’t self-identify as disabled or LGBT.
The public conversation about demographic change is hypocritical and destructive.
The last decade has seen Corporate Social Responsibility metastasize into what has become known, derisively, as “woke capitalism”—a new vision of companies as agents of radical social change. The outward face of this shift has been a torrent of adverts and products laced with political messages. Ben and Jerry’
A surfeit of reparations advocates (including Ta-Nehisi Coates) are openly disdainful of the diversity rationale—just not so disdainful as to actually oppose diversity initiatives.
The available numbers don’t tell us if there was any evidence of systemic bias in the underlying grant criteria, or in the evaluation of applications against those criteria.
French conservative radio host Éric Zemmour is mounting a presidential run, seeking to steal the mantle of right-wing populism from Marine Le Pen. Not only does the 63-year-old firebrand want to limit the number of immigrants who can come to France—a standard campaign promise for politicians of this type—
The administration, well-aware of these defamatory messages, did not refute them or even address their impropriety with the perpetrators of the misinformation.
People differ from one another in many different ways.
But it is sad to see established facts now suppressed along with undesirable beliefs and opinions. And to see our institutions of higher learning being led to this kind of neo-obscurantism in the name of enlightened social attitudes.
Whether it is because we got things wrong or because we got them right, the past is our servant, the key to a richer future and higher states of consciousness.
Hate crime now appears as a political crime, an outrage against social justice. There is a good case for saying that actual incidents of genuine hate crime should be seen in this way.
In rhyming this off, we’re “raising awareness” about the collective action that good citizens can take in the face of a repellant ideology.
Part of the problem in discussing this is that the meaning of words, as used in some-but-not-all Social Justice-speak, often differs from common usage.