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White fragility. Equitable math. The invisible knapsack. These critical theory terms and practices are now common in North Carolina’s public K-12 schools.
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State legislatures are taking up higher education reform.
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Free speech in higher ed is threatened, and leaders in our academic institutions won’t save it.
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A question of power is at the heart of the new and interesting book by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay.
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The fact that conservatives are outnumbered on college campuses isn’t groundbreaking news.
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Academics Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay, and Peter Boghossian have led the reaction against scholarship-as-activism with their famous “grievance studies” hoax.
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Last year, in what became known as the Sokal Squared hoax, James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian created 20 fake papers that they submitted to several cultural studies journals. Seven of them had been selected for publication at the time the hoax became public.
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As more students have headed to college and a degree is seen as a way to shape students as workers and as citizens, higher education’s mission has become more important. Its leaders, and their personal beliefs, have become more contentious, too.
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In March, Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay penned “A Principled Defense of the University” for Areo.
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