Tag Archives: Higher Ed

Kentucky vs. Critical Race Theory

     Kentucky is now joining with many, many other states in considering legislation that would prohibit the state’s schools from pushing Critical Race Theory, as well as Sex-based discrimination by prohibiting the indoctrination of various insidious “divisive concepts”.   SB6 says, … Continue reading

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Woke Indoctrination Has Already Been Immanentized

     A recent article over at Reason Magazine has highlighted a disturbing trend of wokeness, when it comes to Critical Race Theory becoming more accepted at younger ages, with the youngest adults (“Gen Z”) supporting the idea that White people are … Continue reading

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Firing Line Friday: The Economic Lot of Minorities

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      Is is en vogue to declare that non-Whites are oppressed and suffer due to a “system of oppression”. … Continue reading

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Wokeness By Any Other Name

     Would wokeness by any other name small as odious? The University of Tennessee is trying to find out by replacing their “Division of Diversity and Engagement” to “Division of Access and Engagement” because too many people have noticed that “diversity” … Continue reading

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Quick Takes – “DEI”: Diversity Failing Science; Excluding Biological Reality From Medicine; Inequality Mandated For Faculty Statements In Aerospace Programs

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.      The focus this time: Praxis in action.      First, a little mood music:      Carrying on…      Science must … Continue reading

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The Witch Cult Of Academia

     Increasingly, it feels as if colleges and universities have become insular communities where bizarre beliefs not only thrive, but are enforced one way or another.   Is college a cult? “The parallels are suggestive. Parents have wondered about the ever-longer … Continue reading

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Let’s Talk About Decolonization

     The Marxist/Woke Left often talks about “decolonization”. In most people’s minds, this just means letting foreign people’s have democracy and do their own thing. But the attack by Hamas, and the support they have from the “decolonizing” Left shows exactly … Continue reading

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Activist Scholars

Rather than a search for knowledge or where ancient wisdom is kept and learned, academia has degraded into woke propaganda an hagiophraphs of social justice. 1/Want to know why Universities are woke? It's because they've been hijacked by "Activist Scholars" … Continue reading

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In Academia, It Isn’t Corruption If It Is For A Good Cause

     Your humble author has noted previously a trend amongst some of being anti-credential believers where any voice antithetical to “credentialed opinions” must be the default correct one. This, of course, is nonsense and ripe for exploitation by grifters. This does … Continue reading

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Education As Woke Politics

     The woke Left are holistic, totalitarian, and systemic.  Everything is political and the faunt of politics and society as a whole is education.  This is why politics, for them, must be political. 1/One way that woke activists were able to take … Continue reading

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