There’s No Such Thing As “Systematic Racism”
“Systemic racism,” as a concept, takes us directly away from clarity and any possibility of a solution.
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How to Be Not-Racist
We are now offering this essay as a guide to explain to readers how they can, in fact, be not-racist, which we also argue they should want to be and should be expected to be.
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Critical Race Theory’s Jewish Problem
Critical Race Theory has a Jewish problem, and, finally, people are beginning to notice.
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Biden Is Not The Room
James Lindsay recently said on Twitter that he will vote "unhappily" for Republicans including Trump in these troubled times after seeing an argument that the left should work to abolish the Constitution.
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On Anti-Racism and American Identity
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.
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For Racial Healing, Reject Critical Race Theory
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.
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Why Schools Are Teaching Our Kids “Social Justice”
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.
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To Boldly Go: Critical Animal Studies, the Final Frontier
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).
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The Poverty of “Lived Experiences”
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.
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Ideological Gatekeeping and the Future of Peer Review
The circumventing of peer review is a strategy increasing employed by activists in fields across the university.
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The Great Silencing of America and the Hallmarks of Woke Totalitarianism
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.
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Understanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We live in an era of unprecedented pressure for ideologically based organizational trainings: anti-racist, racial sensitivity, unconscious bias, cultural awareness, and, perhaps most commonly, some combination of "diversity, equity, and inclusion."
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No, Science Isn’t a “Social Construct”
When Woke people (critical constructivists) say that science is a social construct, what they mean by that is "science is a political construct."
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GamerGate: How Gamers Were the First to Stand Up Against Grievance Social Justice
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.
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Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise that Everything is About Race
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?).
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A First-Amendment Case for Freedom from the Woke Religion
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.
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Activist Violence in Context
The real trouble with activist violence has less to do with efficacy than with democracy.
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How Social Justice Silences
Peter Boghossian outlines seven different ways that the Critical Social Justice ideology stifles free speech and discusses each with poignant examples.
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The Most Dangerous Place To Be
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.
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