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Identity Politics

February 25, 2021

Not Your Father’s Campus Anymore

Gorman Beauchamp

A review of Robert Boyers' "The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies."

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September 30, 2020

A Broken Vessel: Identity Theory and the Fragmentation of Poetry

Jane Clark Scharl

Identity theory insists that human beings experience the world as members of the identity group to which they belong. This idea is a “revolt against the concept of poetry,” which seeks to......

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September 30, 2020

Identity Politics and the New Culture Wars: Causes and Effects

Matthew Stewart

Two recent books using different methods attempt to address the question most asked by those flummoxed at the illiberal takeover of intellectual life: how did this happen?

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November 27, 2018

Appreciating Tom Wolfe (1930-2018)

Carol Iannone

In remembrance of the man who critiqued a century.

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October 4, 2018

Can We Talk? Life under Frankfurt Rules

Robert L. Paquette

J. Scott Kenney finds himself marginalized by the current brand of social justice intolerance. Robert Paquette and Elizabeth Corey provide a different take on Marcuse and the origins of the......

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October 4, 2018

Shedding Humanity, Shredding the Humanities

Anthony Esolen

An incident with a student provides the occasion for Anthony Esolen’s exposition of how identity politics has made humanities education nearly impossible and the “very notion of a common g......

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