The Western world has gone all-in for wokeness, yet many on the Left still persist in their paranoid delusion that Right-wing ideas control the culture, says Dr David McGrogan.
A new paper looks at one unintended consequence of the MeToo movement: senior male academics became more reluctant to collaborate with junior female colleagues, thereby harming the latter’s career prospects.
Two academics analysed prehistoric burial sites and found that some men were buried with female-typical objects and vice versa. They conclude that there was a "non-binary minority" in pre-historic Europe.
Eugyppius weighs in on the nature of wokeness and how best to defeat it. He thinks it's the usual alliance between ambitious, wannabe members of the elite and useful idiots, conspiring against ageing incumbents.
Major academic publishers are asking the race of those who submit papers. This undermines confidence in the fairness of the editorial process, says Amber Muhinyi.
A recent Guardian article claims that elite universities are “highly conservative institutions”. In fact, they're institutionally woke. A recent poll at Harvard found that only 1.5% of faculty identify as conservative.
The academic publishing industry is taking green virtue-signalling to new heights of absurdity, committing not only to publishing research on the topic but cutting its own miniscule 'carbon footprint' as well.
A new survey has found that younger academics are less likely to agree that it's never acceptable to deplatform a speaker using violence. This suggests the academy is becoming less supportive of free speech over time.
Why did so many academics buy into the Covid narrative? Dr Sinéad Murphy believes it was the inevitable consequence of Cartesian scepticism – distrusting the evidence in front of their own eyes.
A new survey reveals that 85% of Canadian academics are left-wing. When asked what they'd do if students made a petition against one of their colleagues, 40% of left-wing academics said they'd support the petition.
