Ecologism: The Campus Cult of Victimhood(10.1007/s12129-013-9402-3)
Stanley Kurtz, Ethics and Public Policy Center
In the first essay of this issue’s special section, “Inequalities,” Stanley Kurtz explores the growth and nature of radical environmentalism, which now holds our colleges and universities with an all-too-familiar grip: “In a campus cultural setting where victimhood yields superior power, the global warming apocalypse is a way for…students to cash in on academia’s upside-down market in prestige….With the world about to end, everyone can be a victim, everyone lower-class. Thus the old Marxist model is surpassed and preserved.”
Staged Emergencies: How Colleges React to Bias Incidents(10.1007/s12129-014-9408-5)
Ashley Thorne, National Association of Scholars
At many schools, the mission to promote a vision of social justice means that “teaching about the world is not as important as changing it.” In her “Inequalities” essay, Ashley Thorne describes
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