The Asinine Politics of the Marist Mindset List
…focused much of their efforts on children.Racial hysteria: That’s Mindset List topic #7, under the heading (of course) “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” Here we read that “the Class of 2026…
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Another Weak Argument for Affirmative Action
…good job of defending it, resorting to “the same tired arguments.” She doesn’t think that the standard “educational benefits” line is persuasive, for example. “Why, uniquely among ‘diversity’ factors like…
Giant of Ideas Threatens Small Minds
…who talk about “diversity” can’t tolerate it when real diversity of opinion comes to campus. Rather than engage the kind of neoliberal, market-oriented analysis for which Friedman was famous and…
A liberal education ought to help college students to “think slow”
…intellectual and theoretical perspectives. Intellectual diversity is the crucial ingredient that enables students to begin to get outside themselves and recognize the biases in their own thinking about the way…
Did You Know? The Negative Effects of Racial Preferences on Minority Students
…a chain reaction, resulting in a substantial credentials gap at nearly all selective schools. And according to Stephen Cole and Elinor Barber, authors of the book “Increasing Faculty Diversity: The…
WASC: Accreditor Foxes Guard Collegiate Henhouse
…department had assembled a creditable record in efforts to achieve greater diversity, including voluntary participation in five ethnically-targeted searches, resulting in two job offers, one of which was accepted. Evidently,…
Bad Incentives Undermine the Scientific Process
…want to improve science. A new project called Heterodox Academy will help to address some research problems in the social sciences. The project has been created to improve the diversity…
George Mason’s Orwellian “Just Societies” Requirement
…exploring substantively different views on justice; they are hearing about “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” in all its Orwellian wonder. As the official website tells us, Upon completing a Just Societies…
Renewing the University: A Pro/Con of Proposals
…stay in academia (given the rotten job market), and may be pushed out by political litmus tests like diversity statements. Also, if the IHS approach succeeds too much, student or…
The Diversity bureaucracy will always be “successful,” despite failures
…How is this possible? It remains for two reasons. First & foremost the Gap is essential to the continued life of the Bureaucratic Diversity/Inclusivity Blob which birthed it. If the…