We stare at the abyss of an even more polarized cultural climate, continuing political stagnation, and one of the most tumultuous election cycles in American history, and many are left wondering what in the world just happened.
Critical Race Theory proceeds upon a number of core tenets, the first and most central of which is that racism is the ordinary state of affairs in our society.
When it comes to our children's schools, many of us will conclude that it's necessary and important in our modern, progressive world for our children to learn about these sorts of issues.
Compitus may seem fringe, but she is working from the assumptions, and toward the aspirations, of a distinct critical social theory of relatively recent vintage (predictably) known as Critical Animal Studies (CAS).
This rhetoric is, by design, meant to paint political dissidents as myopic stooges who are unwilling to “listen to the Lived Experiences of marginalized people,” thus making them unwittingly complicit in systems of oppression.
America's own history always moved in favor of including everyone under its umbrella, starting with the emancipation of the black slaves, and continuing with the achievement of women's suffrage, and eventually, universal suffrage. Totalitarian movements, in contrast, once it becomes possible, will always move in the opposite direction.
GamerGate is the canary in the Woke coal mine that you’ve probably never looked closely at, but once you do, you see that it represents the victory of the honest person in the comments section winning over the dishonest journalist writing the article.
Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla F. Saad is just the thing to carry round if you want to signal that you are not just talking the intersectional talk, but doing the work (and in these post-Black Lives Matter times, that’s what we’re supposed to do, right?).
The question of whether or not the worldview and practice—for practice it intentionally is—going variously by the names “Social Justice,” “Critical Social Justice,” or, more colloquially, “Woke” constitutes a religion is one of some general interest that seems to be growing.
Most of the young people currently demolishing America’s statues were born too late to have picked up the habit from watching the attacks on statues of Lenin in the early 1990s, or of Saddam Hussein in the early 2000s.
Illinois State Representative, LaShawn K. Ford, held a press conference in Evanston to call for the suspension of history classes in Illinois public schools.
“Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” For generations, American children were taught this simple rhyme...but what about when words do hurt?
The Anti-fascist movement—often abbreviated as Antifa—has been around since fascists first came to power in the early 1900s. But more recently, beginning with the election of President Donald Trump, Antifa…
The concept of “indigenous ways of knowing” is increasingly popular in North American universities. However, this enthusiasm is largely abstract, for educational institutions have not yet processed the implications. In Venezuela, my experience as an educator has been different.