The Chronicle Tracks the Restoration of Enlightened Higher Education
By Stanley K. Ridgley, PhD
The superstitious roots of DEI and its pseudoscientific “justification” have always been known to many in the university, but coercive administrations and authoritarian bureaucrats have made it unsafe for those on the campuses to speak out against this anti-intellectual movement.
It’s a movement that constitutes perhaps the greatest threat to the university since the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment expunged much of the fakery from the universities — topics like alchemy, astrology, the efficacy of magic, belief in the philosopher’s stone. Late-comers such as Velikovskyism were granted a mercifully swift death.
The toxic brew that is DEI has proven durable as the magic thinkers combine primitive ideas with authoritarian decree to force this anti-intellectualism into every corner of the campus.
It is a manifestation of bureaucratic overreach, the product of mediocre minds, and the more it is recognized as such, the ease with which it can be eliminated increases.
Kudos to the Chronicle of Higher Education for its diligent coverage of this accelerating movement to reform and restore higher education to its Enlightenment roots of Logic, Reason, Progress, Scientific Method, Intellectual Rigor, and Humane Values.
Here’s a useful college-by-college tracker of the progressive elimination of DEI’s primitive ideological programs and fake jobs at colleges across the nation.
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