DEI vs Free Speech
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How DEI Becomes Discrimination
By John Sailer, July 5, 2024, The Wall Street Journal
Self-Evident Truths: The One Sure Foundation for True Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
By John Kennerly Davis, July 4, 2024, The Federalist Society
M.I.T. Will No Longer Require Diversity Statements for Hiring Faculty
by Anemona Hartocollis, May 6, 2024, New York Times
Teaching About Identity: Lessons from The Cultural Revolution
An April 12, 2024 conversation between FAIR (Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism) and Xi Van Fleet and Dr. Pingnan Shi, both survivors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, discussing education in 1960s China and how to avoid similar mistakes in today’s K-12 classrooms.
Mandatory DEI Statements Are Ideological Pledges of Allegiance. Time to Abandon Them.
by Randall L. Kennedy, Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard, The Harvard Crimson, April 2, 2024
Should public funds be used for DEI programs in higher ed?
March 6, 2024. Courtesy of The Steamboat Institute.
Save the telos of universities ― end DEI
by Frank Hill, North State Journal, February 28, 2024
Race, Merit, Excellence, and America’s Future
speech by Heather McDonald, Feb 15, 2024 (51 minutes)
Medical Schools Should ‘Combat Racism.’ But Not Like This
by Jeffrey Flier, February 7, 2024, The Free Press
Pop Goes the DEI Bubble
by Andy Kessler, WSJ Jan 22 2024
DEI Is Worth Saving From Its Excesses
by Roland Fryer, Jan. 22 2024 WSJ
Reports of DEI’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
By Hal. R. Arkes, WSJ Jan 11 2024
Claudine Gay’s “My Truth” and the Truth
By William A. Galston, WSJ Jan 10, 2024
How DEI Is Supplanting Truth as the Mission of American Universities
by John Sailer, The Free Press, January 9, 2023
Can Harvard Learn Anything from Ralph Waldo Emerson?
By Lance Morrow, WSJ Jan 10, 2024
The Education of Bill Ackman
By Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ Jan 8, 2024
How South Africa’s decline coincides with Harvard’s
By Shawn Hagedorn, Jan 8 2024 BizNews
We Know Diversity Statements are Political Litmus Tests
By Komi Frey, Jan. 4, 2024 The Chronicle of Higher Education
How to Fix Harvard
By Bill Ackman
Jan. 3, 2024
Harvard resignation is a DEI debacle
By Jonathan S. Tobin
Jan. 2, 2024
Douglas Murray and Ayaan Hirsi Ali on DEI vs Meritocracy
Talk TV, January 2024
Argue Honesty in the Claudine Gay Affair
By John H. Cochrane
Dec. 30, 2023
DEI training mandatory for freshmen, conscientious objectors forced to speak
By Dominic Vogelbacher, Dec. 24, 2023 The W&L Spectator
Here’s why Obama stepped in to save Harvard prez Claudine Gay
By Benjamin Weingarten
Dec. 24, 2023
Top business schools push CRT and other progressive ideas, report finds
Jack Applewhite, University of Georgia
Dec. 21, 2023
Top business schools push CRT and other progressive ideas, report finds
‘Grave concern’: Soviet-educated professor resigns association membership over DEI statements
By Maggie Kelly, Dec. 19, 2023
‘Grave concern’: Soviet-educated professor resigns association membership over DEI statements
Physicians propose med schools focus more on ‘oppression,’ ‘race’ than ‘medical expertise’
by Micaiah Bilger, Dec. 8, 2023
Dershowitz: Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs breed antisemitism
By Charlotte Hazard
Physicians propose med schools focus more on ‘oppression,’ ‘race’ than ‘medical expertise’
Why I won’t give $10 to Harvard
by G. David Bednar
Dissenting faculty score a rare win against retaliation by the powers of DEI
by Jonathan Turley
Nov. 18, 2023
The DEI Trojan Horse Is a University Leadership Failure
By Dorian S. Abbot and Ivan Marinovic
Mar 21, 2023 at 6:00 AM EDT
