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Oct 31, 2019 ·

Did You Know? Grievance Studies in the UNC System

…in the humanities. Academics Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay, and Peter Boghossian have led the reaction against scholarship-as-activism with their famous “grievance studies” hoax. The three academics submitted ridiculous papers—such as…

Jul 17, 2019 ·

The Diversity Distortion

…called “grievance studies,” academic programs addressing issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, and identity. But in the uproar over the hoax, a more fundamental question has been overlooked. Why are…

Feb 13, 2019 ·

Did the Hoaxers Do Anything Wrong?

…rights? Is an academic hoax actually “research?” Are there any other means available to prove the absurdity of what the hoaxers called grievance studies? The answer to the first question,…

May 3, 2024 ·

Toward Effective Program Reviews

…should be sent into a College of Grievance Studies (COGS), where they would have their own general education and internally selected leaders, filled with zeal for their cause. They could…

Jan 4, 2021 ·

Reforming Higher Ed in 2021

…were less rigorous, but which questioned the very idea of rigor as Euro-centric and hetero-patriarchal. These disciplines, in James Lindsay’s useful terminology, are collectively known as grievance studies. They have…

May 29, 2020 ·

A War Against ‘Normal’

…academy in 2018 by hoaxing several “grievance studies” journals that publish shoddy activist scholarship. Their book, “Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—And Why This…