Category: critical theory

The Rage Orchestrating the Transformation of America

Commentary One of the many traps into which conservatives routinely fall is thinking that their ideological opponents don’t fully understand the nature and the consequences of the ruinous policies they advocate. Cries of, “don’t they realize that…” and “surely they can see the hypocrisy” fill the air as the well-meaning but utterly naïve Right tries…


Universities’ Social Justice Agenda Falsely Labels Whites and Christians as Oppressors, Says Professor

Promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion is a top issue for many Canadian universities, but an outspoken professor says such tolerance is not extended to some students and professors who are “excluded with impunity” due to being perceived as oppressors. “When the universities say that they’re promoting diversity and inclusion, they really are not telling the…


What Is to Be Done? A New Economic Model

Commentary What is to be done? Lenin’s 1902 question, posed as he was effecting his takeover of the Bolsheviks with an eye to absolute power in Russia, continues to echo down the decades. Lenin understood that first the struggle for supremacy had to be won at the intellectual and theoretical level and then, when the…


With Parties Polarized, Desire for Revenge Calls the Tune

“The people have spoken,” said former New York City mayor Ed Koch after the Democratic mayoral primary of 1989, “and they must be punished.” The understandably bitter Koch had just been defeated by David Dinkins and was bidding his farewell to politics. And in fact, the people were punished: the one-term Dinkins, who defeated Rudy…


Where Can You Send Your Children to University?

Commentary Liberal arts education, as I experienced it at Antioch College in the late 1950s and early 1960s, was aimed at opening students’ minds to the intellectual life of Western culture. Students were asked to consider such questions as “What counts as a good life?”, “How do people’s ideas and actions differ from place to…


California County Instructed Teachers to Hide Marxist Teaching Materials From Parents

Teachers in California’s Santa Clara county were reportedly instructed last year to hide from students’ parents their “ethnic studies” teaching materials, which describe the United States as a settler colonialist regime responsible for genocide and white supremacy. In November 2020, Santa Clara County’s Office of Education held a training for teachers to get a hold…


How Wokeness Captured Big Business

Commentary During the 2019 shareholder season, Justin Danhof, general counsel for the National Center for Public Policy Research, tabled a shareholder proposal at Amazon’s annual meeting. “Diversity in board composition is best achieved though highly qualified candidates with a wide range of skills, experience, beliefs, and board independence from management,” it read. Uncontroversial, one might…


Smith College Staffer Quits Over Anti-White Racism

A staffer at Smith College has resigned, publishing a letter accusing the elite women’s university of creating a “racially hostile environment” against white people. Jodi Shaw used to be a student support coordinator at the Massachusetts college but recently sent a resignation letter to its leadership saying the environment left her “physically and mentally debilitated.”…


Identity Politics Is a Tool to Break Down America: Expert

Identity politics is the reimagining of America as not a united country or a united nation but as a confederation of identity groups, according to Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow on E Pluribus Unum at Heritage Foundation. “Some of these groups are considered to be oppressed and then one of these groups is the oppressor,”…


Biden Proclaims ‘Racial Equity’ as Goal ‘Of the Whole of Government’

President Joe Biden has proclaimed a commitment to embed the quasi-Marxist “equity” ideology throughout the government. “We need to make the issue of racial equity not just an issue for any one department of government; it has to be the business of the whole of government,” Biden said in remarks on Jan. 26 before signing…