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When companies demand more and more degrees for very basic jobs, they cut off access for unskilled workers to break into the job market.
Just to be clear, most of my faculty colleagues are well-educated, bright, and dedicated teachers. Some are also worthy scholars or creative authors.
The problem isn’t simply one of political imbalance, an absence of parity between Left and Right voices, but the extent to which humanities departments have become politicized.
“Let’s not have any political correctness here. If characters can’t think and talk like people—if writers can’t—then what’s the point of literature?”
But anti-Brexit academics no longer appear able to differentiate between their own personal investment in the EU and the progressive social values they also claim to uphold.
Then institutions of higher learning will again be a place for what they were originally meant, the exchange of ideas and verifiable knowledge.
The curricula of sociology departments are so deeply flawed that they will need to be revised from the ground up.
If universities made this negotiation route available to students as a matter of policy, campus activists won’t have to wave their signs and tread on the grass as their default action.
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters is finally out this year.
These expectations can work both ways: When researchers told children that boys and girls would perform the same, boys’ academic performance improved.
Diversity is the celebration of individuality and nonconformity, and democracy is most precious when it allows three hundred million individuals to reach a compromise out of love for their country.
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?
We should remember that the creation of knowledge is generally a positive sum game. When practitioners in one field make progress and gain insight, all fields stand to benefit.
There’s a solution, but it’s not one that most feminists want to hear.
To all who value academic freedom, tolerance, and human dignity, weaponized diversity should be as abhorrent as the Total University it supports.