Alexander Riley is a professor of sociology at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Scholars. All views expressed are his and do not represent the views of his employer.
The woke antiracism espoused by many of our cultural elites constitutes little more than a remade racism. The view that bridging the racial divide in American society requires blaming all racial inequalities on white privilege and structural racism cannot possibly end in racial reconciliation. It purports that non-whiteness is a righteous position of vindictive judgment
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I have a very fat file in my computer of crazy things that have happened in my professional life as an academic. Colleagues saying and doing stuff no one outside of academia would believe; encounters with students convinced they knew more about my work than I do; and classes, speakers, and other campus events so
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There are probably more than a few Americans who can remember when NPR endeavored to speak to and for a much larger piece of the public than it does now. I was once a regular listener. This was way back in the days of Garrison Keillor, who was unpersoned by #MeToo a few years back, and
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Schools are reconvening and students are finally returning to the great halls of learning, albeit masked. Colleges are holding convocations to welcome a new class to begin their multiyear stay on campus. Convocation addresses are often delivered by the college president, traditionally a devastatingly unexciting speaker, while more lucky students get to hear wisdom disseminated
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