Tyranny of the Ethnography: How Lived Experience Corrupts the Social Sciences When books are routinely used as tools of indoctrination in the regime of liberal pedagogy, when will students ever hear the other side of the story? Toni Airaksinen 9 Jan 2017 · 6 min read
Why Colleges Should Stop Teaching “Toxic Masculinity” For every article published highlighting a case of students being taught this ideology, there are dozens of other instances that aren’t covered by the news. Toni Airaksinen 16 Nov 2016 · 4 min read
Review: Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream — Sara Goldrick-Rab Paying the Price draws on an unprecedented study that tracked the educational outcomes of 3,000 young adults that entered college in Wisconsin in 2008. Toni Airaksinen 30 Sep 2016 · 4 min read
What I Learned In My Women’s Studies Classes Oppression does indeed exist. But, oppression is complicated, far more complicated than can be distilled in an undergraduate academic setting. Toni Airaksinen 26 Aug 2016 · 4 min read
Forget Microaggressions, Some Students Face Hunger and Homelessness There are many who go hungry or homeless. How can students prosper without food? Or without a safe place to sleep? Toni Airaksinen 11 Jun 2016 · 4 min read
Confessions of a Recovering Tumblr Feminist My blissful union with feminism ended in the same way that any long-term relationship does: with hurt feelings, a little embarrassment, and a pang of remorse over what could have been. Toni Airaksinen 29 May 2016 · 4 min read
Where Are The Conservative Professors? In this environment, it’s almost impossible to find anyone — students or professors — who admit they hold conservative views. Toni Airaksinen 11 May 2016 · 4 min read
Feminism Blinds Students to the Truth About Men Are women so smothered by the blanket of victimhood that we can’t concede that men face issues too? Isn’t the hallmark of intersectionality finding victimhood everywhere? Toni Airaksinen 18 Apr 2016 · 5 min read
The Myth of "Rape Culture" at Columbia University To say that Columbia has a “rape culture” is not just inaccurate, but it suggests that Columbia somehow is exclusionary not just in terms of academic elitism, but in the number of sexual assaults that happen too. Toni Airaksinen 25 Feb 2016 · 5 min read
The Thought Police Aren’t Administrators—They’re Us College Kids Students at residential colleges live in an oppressively tight bubble of conformity. Toni Airaksinen 23 Jan 2016 · 4 min read
I’m Not a Feminist—Even Though I Attend a Women's College Feminism is purported to be a movement towards equality. Fair enough. Most reasonable people support that. Toni Airaksinen 13 Jan 2016 · 5 min read
