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+ ViewpointIntersectionality Is a Political Football—Here’s Why It Doesn’t Have to Be
Intersectionality theory needs repair. The fewer flaws in the theory, the more likely non-liberals will be to take it seriously. Simultaneously, if conservatives and other non-liberals come to understand that intersectionality spans issues that are…Read More
+ ViewpointFree Inquiry on Campus: A Statement of Principles by a Collection of Middlebury…
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+ Book SummaryOrganizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern…
Why was the modern research university created? In his latest book Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University, Chad Wellmon, Associate Professor of German Studies and History at the University…Read More
+ Book SummaryParenting to a Degree: How Family Matters for College Women’s Success
It’s hard not to feel sympathy for helicopter parents. Since their emergence, the media have criticized them, popular novels have caricatured them, and trade publications have offered advice on how to cope with them. They are blamed for…Read More
+ ViewpointThe New Religion of Anti-Racism Can Turn Disagreement into Heresy
John McWhorter recently noted the resemblance between religious fervor and anti-racist activism: An anthropology article from 1956 used to get around more than it does now, “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema.” Because my mother gave it to me to…Read More
+ ViewpointHeterodox Black Professors Say Scalia was Right
Justice Scalia caused an uproar last week when he tried to defend the "mismatch" hypothesis in an unvarnished and direct way, to which some took offense: There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the…Read More
+ ViewpointWhat Can Help African-American Students Feel Included?
Race was at the center of campus protests that spread through American universities this fall. Many of the protestors were African-American, and they demanded that colleges stop treating them like outsiders. Although I’m not African-American, I’m…Read More
+ ViewpointDoes the Mandate for Novel Research Explain the Absence of Conservatives?
David Linker has a new column on the absence of conservatives in academia, and has a couple of new ideas about why universities might not attract as many conservatives as liberals. Both of his ideas stem from the origins of universities.Read More
+ ViewpointCentrism and Sociology
Conservativism doesn’t seem to be a unipolar thing, according to much of the social psychological research on political attitudes. Rather, research by John Duckitt shows you can be conservative by being high in either social dominance orientation…Read More
+ Research SummaryHow Ideology Has Hindered Sociological Insight, summarized
Earlier this year, I published a paper on the problems that sociology faces because of ideological homogeneity. You can read the full paper at The American Sociologist or get an ungated copy here. Here’s a summary of the some points that I…Read More
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