Dear Teen Girls: Leave the Vulnerable Kids Alone
The hubris of the teenage mind is not a new thing.
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Critical Race Theory: A Two-page Overview
Critical Race Theory proceeds upon a number of dubious assumptions and by means of a variety of questionable methods.
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The Rise of the Woke Cultural Revolution
What actually triggered the Woke Cultural Revolution in the West?
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Believe Moms: There’s Something Else Going on With Trans Teens
Today, I’d like you all to just take a deep breath and center some voices that are being silenced and ignored: the moms of the world.
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Land Acknowledgment Statements: The Cultural Violence of the Academic Elite
Imported from countries like Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, where Postcolonial Theory is more prominent than in the US, Weapon X in the rhetorical arms race that pervades academic wokeness has reached American shores: it is called the “Land Acknowledgement Statement.”
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The Values of a Post-Woke World
If we continue fighting back—for pushing back is no longer enough—intelligently and firmly against the ideology of Critical Social Justice and the Woke movement it has spawned, we will find ourselves on the road to a post-Woke world, and it is not yet clear what that might look like.
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The University of California Drifts toward Conformism: The Challenges of Representation and the Climate for Academic Freedom in the Country’s Greatest Public Research University
In this essay, we address the consequences of the University of California’s policies to address racial disparities and its support for social justice activism as influences on its commitment to academic freedom and other intellectual values.
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You’re Not Trans. You’re Just Weird.
This hypothetically open letter was originally posted by its anonymous author on Medium and was rapidly removed as "hate speech."
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A Letter Supporting a Bill to Ban Critical Race Theory
The state of New Hampshire is trying to advance a bill in its state house of representatives (HB544) that mirrors the executive order President Trump issued "against Critical Race Theory," which is to say against the divisive (and racist/neoracist) tenets at the heart of Critical Race Theory and so-called "diversity" training sessions based upon it.
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Negy’s Challenge: Academic Cancellation and the Freedom to Fight
The cancellation of tenured psychology professor Charles Negy cleared a major hurdle last week, when the University of Central Florida fired him, making good on the promise they made in a Notice of Intent to Terminate that was provided on January 13.
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Essentialism: The Logical Fallacy Plaguing Us Since Plato
An empty scholasticism, essentialist thought has stifled our reason since antiquity due to its overwhelming intellectual obsession with language itself, thereby failing to recognise that language is simply a tool we use to represent reality, nothing more.
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Chinese Inventions: The Compass, Gunpowder, …and Critical Social Justice?
I suspect that we might learn something useful regarding our own situation by understanding the evolution from Chinese “Critical Social Justice” to Chinese Communism more clearly.
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What Is Critical Race Theory?
I’ve been asked a million times for a short introduction to Critical Race Theory that hits the high points in a quick, straightforward way.
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Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don’t: Cynicism On Display
For the last four years, I’ve been unable to settle to my own satisfaction the question of what poses the greater internal threat to the United States: the Presidency of Donald Trump, or the growing influence of Critical Social Justice Theory (CSJT).
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Intersectionality Goes to Court
The real impact of CRT on American law is most evident in the growing but little recognized influence of intersectionality.
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The Woke Make Biden’s “Moderation” Irrelevant
There is very little to suggest to me that the Biden administration that we have presumably elected to the highest office in the land and as the leadership of the free world for at least the next four years is prepared to safeguard its people on this issue.
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(Higher) Education Is Destroying America
The reason for the problem is simple: the “educated” have become a stale, stagnant monoculture, a culture within which groupthink reigns, within which prejudice predominates, bad ideas go unchallenged and the worst ideas get insulated from scrutiny by strictly enforced taboos.
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Are Micro-Aggressions Really a Human Rights Violation?
The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has addressed a letter to the principals and presidents of universities and colleges across the province after reports of racism and other human rights violations.
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Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism
Pseudo-realities, being false and unreal, will always generate tragedy and evil on a scale that is at least proportional to the reach of their grip on power—which is their chief interest—whether social, cultural, economic, political, or (particularly) a combination of several or all of these.
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The University as the Woke Mission Field: A Dissident Women’s Studies Ph.D. Speaks Out
I have a Ph.D. in Women's Studies, but I'm not woke anymore.
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