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Some Concerns About Campus Identity Politics
Diversity progressives should be careful about the kind of activism that poisons the atmosphere, because soon even they will be choking on the fumes.
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What College Activists Can Learn From Hamilton
Hamilton went from revolutionary college student to nation-builder. Does his example hold lessons for today’s student activists?
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Jussie Smollett and the Limits of Identity Politics
There has to be some happy medium between identity determining everything and identity counting for nothing.
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When Educational Leaders Invoke 'Safety'
In a diverse democracy, education ought to be about learning and building relationships across lines of difference. Does invoking the concept safety help facilitate either of those goals?
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Does Elite Higher Education Function Like White Privilege?
The multicultural meritocracy gives its own a leg up, just not quite in the same way that it used to be done.
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The Effects of Racism and the Excesses of Identity Politics
On my experiences of racism as a kid, the liberating multiculturalism I encountered in college and the very different landscape my children navigate now.
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Academic Rigor and the Covington Catholic Story
The dangers of offering hot takes on current events for a community that prizes rigorous methodologies and judicious conclusions.