Commentary Professors are trained as impartial researchers. In a nutshell, they defend truth claims based on the best available evidence and avoid playing the role of a political advocate. Whenever academics gravitate toward the latter, they begin mirroring the discourses of an emerging cultural narrative instead of dispassionately interrogating its core arguments. A perfect case in point concerns an initiative approved by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa. The teaching staff recently received an invitation concerning an anti-racist workshop titled “Building Belonging Through Antiracist Pedagogy, 2021-2022.” One of the sponsors is the Antiracist History Group, an organization of uOttawa historians who “wish to educate themselves on issues related to race and racism and promote antiracism throughout the university.” The first goal is laudable and relates to academic values—specifically, the value of inquiry—but the second involves the dissemination of a favoured ideology, one that leads educators to adopt …