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CATEGORY: EDUCATION (11 MIN)

Dogma over diversity

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Nearly every major educational institution in America now has a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) department, or an equivalent of some kind. These organizations purportedly try to increase the ideological, racial, and social diversity of their schools—but in reality, they’re trying to enforce a progressive dogma of social justice.

Take De Anza Community College in California. This Cupertino school hired a black woman named Tabia Lee in 2021 to their DEI office. Lee wanted to increase the viewpoint diversity at the school. But as Lee tells us in Compact

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, this got her fired.

During her time at De Anza, Lee constantly faced brutal opposition. She invited Jewish speakers to discuss the Holocaust and was called “a dirty Zionist.” She founded a multifaith holiday and heritage month calendar and was told she wasn’t “decentering whiteness” enough. Simply writing a meeting agenda? It reinforced “white supremacy.”

And although students and the majority of De Anza’s staff appreciated Lee’s efforts, her ideologically driven evaluators didn’t. She was fired. Now, Lee is encouraging others to question the authoritarian orthodoxy.

Read Lee’s story right here

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CATEGORY: POLITICS (65 MIN)

Wool over the eyes

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For the past few years, the mainstream media has refused to pick up stories that would expose political and corporate elites (on the left) to any harm. Hunter Biden’s laptops? Gone. Twitter’s censorship of conservative voices? Nope. And in the meantime, these publications spread what can only be called misinformation.

In Tablet

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, Jacob Siegel writes a sprawling discussion of the many hoaxes which the supposedly objective media has perpetuated. He says it largely began when progressives started blaming Facebook for Donald Trump’s election, which opened the door for the government to justify control over major social media companies.

Then, when rumors spread about Trump’s potential collusion with Russia (another hoax, Siegel reminds us), censoring moderators and administrators stepped through the door and cracked down on what they called “misinformation.” The irony, of course, is that these elites in control were perpetuating lies the whole time, Siegel notes.

“Disinformation provided a regulatory framework to replace the U.S. Constitution,” Siegel says.

Discover Siegel’s deep analysis right here

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Gender: Who Decides?

A Debate on Transgenderism & Womanhood

What does it mean to be a man or a woman? Can you be born a man and actually become a woman? Is identity tangibly attached to something inherent in us, or is it intangible and subjective? Is it merely some social construct or is it embedded in our genes, in our biological identity itself? ​​​​Can we actually conquer our human nature and identity in the same way we seemed to have conquered the other realms of nature? If we try, what are the consequences?

Join the Intercollegiate Studies Institute in Pittsburgh, PA, on April 18th at 7 PM as Michael Knowles and Deirdre McCloskey debate womanhood and transgenderism. Register here to attend in-person

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Because our student editors and writers are bravely bringing conservative ideas to their campuses, we’re highlighting their efforts here.

Student Assembly under ‘FIRE’ for Content Warnings

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via The Cornell Review

“At its meeting last week, the Student Assembly passed a resolution, SA Res. 31, that would require so-called “trigger warnings” for “traumatic content” discussed in the classroom.”

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Escaping the Political at Stanford

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via The Stanford Review

“...students are tired of the progressive push to introduce a political element into every choice an individual makes, including whether or not it is ethical to eat meat, travel by airplane or major in CS.”

CATEGORY: EDUCATION (26 MIN)

The grand conspiracy

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Media is hardly the only field where established leaders collude with progressive thinkers to enforce their agenda. As Tabia Lee’s story tells us, the academic world now houses a huge left-wing conglomerate as well. And this force will stop at nothing to reshape the educational world.

For this week’s Intercollegiate Review

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archive, Benjamin Ginsberg targets the “unholy alliance” of progressive activists and university administrators which has corrupted America’s schools. He points out the wave of leftist policies, like single-race dorms, conservative speaker cancellations, and codes restricting free speech, as evidence of this collusion.

Ginsberg highlights several reasons for this alliance. First is a practical one: DEI administrators want more money for their departments. Next, university staff members don’t want to face backlash from young progressive radicals on campus. And finally, this coalition allows administrators to claim more control over the faculty in a classic power struggle.

The most nefarious part of this setup is that the “safe spaces” on America’s campuses are not universal. They’re safe for progressive students; they’re forbidden for conservatives. That’s why we at ISI have been fighting back—to give conservative students a place to call home and stop this alliance Ginsberg has shone the light on.

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Thought of the Day:

“In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.”

- G.K. Chesterton

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