A review of "A Dubious Expediency: How Race Preferences Damage Higher Education," eds. Gail Heriot, Maimon Schwarzschild, Encounter, 2021, pp. 336, $21.68 hardcover.
Social justice ideology has redefined the meaning of “equality” and “freedom,” devastating the study of humanities. The answer? Return, without shame, to the reading of Great Books.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-20DOI: 10.1007/s12129-013-9379-y
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Sociologist Robert Leroux traces woke ideology from its beginnings to its takeover of the university, from where it emerged.
社会学家罗伯特·勒鲁(Robert Leroux)追溯了觉醒意识形态从诞生到接管大学的过程。
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Those in our universities who want to level our corrupt meritocracy should be first to hand over their meritoriously padded fiefdoms.
在我们的大学里,那些想要消除我们腐败的精英统治的人应该首先交出他们的功绩填充的领地。
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Anthropologist Geoffrey Clarfield talks to Christopher Hallpike, an anthropologist who challenged the suffocating scholarly consensus that “people are the same everywhere” and “that all cultures are somehow equally valid, and that by implication, they are all equally complex.”
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Wight Martindale finds that Peter Wood’s new book Wrath: America Enraged is as much about patience as passionate indignation.
怀特·马丁代尔发现,彼得·伍德的新书《愤怒:美国愤怒》既有激情的愤慨,也有耐心。
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The racism we see in America today, the kind that operates under the guise of “anti-racism” and culminates in riots and destruction, was concocted in American universities.
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National Association of Scholars Board Chairman Keith Whitaker introduces David Bolotin’s provocative remarks at a St. John’s College presentation.
全国学者协会董事会主席基思·惠特克在圣约翰学院的演讲中介绍了大卫·博洛廷的挑衅性言论。
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