6.20.2003
White elephants and ivory towers
[Posted 12:19 PM by Stefan Beck]
The Washington Post reports today on a relatively new academic swindle: ’whiteness studies.’
One hopes the Post’s attention will encourage a more focused and critical scrutiny of its acolytes, as this field has flourished in the last few years.
Carol Iannone’s piece on NRO today about diversity and education may serve as a script to this latest farce:
The goal is to create students adept in “relational living,” who demonstrate “cultural competence,” students, that is, who can endure the falsehoods and injustices of the diversity regime with bland equanimity.