Against the Politicisation of Museums
Activists wanted museums to pivot away from historic collections and towards their audiences, focusing more on excluded groups.
Activists wanted museums to pivot away from historic collections and towards their audiences, focusing more on excluded groups.
Training on ‘unconscious bias’ is the punishment that hiring committees face for not hiring enough female and (non-Asian) minority professors.
We also have our separate ‘facts,’ often the result of what different media outlets consider newsworthy.”
There was a further fork in the road as soixante-huitards debated moving on from baiting police at protests to participating in terrorism.
The effects of colonial contact, and the process of acculturation on small-scale societies, can be quite unpredictable.
Who, after all, would wish for another case like Alfie Evans or Charlie Gard?
One brought down Flight 182, a massacre that remained, until 9/11, the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of aviation.
If activists are embarrassed by constitutional norms, religious devotion, and American virtues, then what are the values around which a progressive movement can hope to organise?
Scottish people should have been a more visible presence, since the outcome of the case could curtail their freedom of speech.
By refighting the Canon Wars, there is hope that we can chart a more productive course than the one we have inherited.
When black people are asked what they think about myriad race-related issues, their answers often deviate from liberal orthodoxy.
These are all cases of self-identified leftists excommunicating other leftists—silencing those who fail to heed the maximalist demands of trans activists.
Generations of Indigenous children were forcibly sent to church- and government-run residential schools, which systematically stripped away their culture and language.