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Does that support or contradict the conservative critique that the Ivies are hotbeds of “wokeness?” At Limmud, I heard you say that colleges have become undergraduate business schools. At the Ivies, the percentage of students majoring in the humanities and the softer social sciences is, in al...
All this alongside a relentless pretence at meritocracy and a stress on individualism over collectivism, implying that dissatisfaction with your circumstances was not a result of structural conditions, but an individual failing that only you could change – by altering yourself and not the system. ...
Give DEI or Diversity, Equity, Inclusion or Woke or Critical Race Theory a quick death in every corner of government, especially the Pentagon, and restore meritocracy, objectivity, individual responsibility, equal opportunity, color blindness, free market principles. If this can be accomplished in Am...
However, critique of the linear stages model of 'development as modernization' toward 'developed', industrialized and 'advanced' country standards of living and norms suggests that the increased diversity of approaches and pathways of 'devel- opment' are not necessarily proceeding towards the same ...
More disturbing was the revelation of a “snitch list.” The harmful language initiative apparently is tangential to another new idea of rewarding Stanford snitches who feel offended by hurtful expression. Or, as the so-called “The Protected Identity Harm (PIH) Reporting” system put it, softwa...
rather than a wheel: you believe that we are gradually making progress toward a better world rather than declining from a previous Golden Age or recurring in an endless series of cycles, and as such you would think “behind the times” is an insult and “ahead of her time” is a ...
In reality, that song was first penned asa Marxist critique of the notion of private property— in direct opposition to the narrow notion of freedom the 1776 report venerates. Woodie Guthrie — of “This machine kills fascists” fame — would not only have vehemently opposed the sort of “...
Bomani JONES: They need to believe that sports are pure meritocracy because, honestly, they don’t believe there’s a meritocracy anywhere else. We focus on the latest case of sportswashing, in the usually boring precinct of professional golf. ...
Critical race theory (CRT) is a school of thought meant to emphasize the effects of race on one's social standing. It arose as a challenge to the idea that in the two decades since theCivil Rights Movementand associated legislation, racial inequality had been solved and affirmative action was...