Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship
3rd October 2018
Something has gone wrong in the university—especially in certain fields within the humanities. Scholarship based less upon finding truth and more upon attending to social grievances has become firmly established, if not fully dominant, within these fields, and their scholars increasingly bully students, administrators, and other departments into adhering to their worldview. This worldview is not scientific, and it is not rigorous. For many, this problem has been growing increasingly obvious, but strong evidence has been lacking. For this reason, the three of us just spent a year working inside the scholarship we see as an intrinsic part of this problem.
UPDATE: Bethany Mandel: Breaching the Field of Grievance Studies
UPDATE: Trio of Academics Prank ‘Grievance Studies’ Journals, Publish Ridiculous Hoax Papers
UPDATE: Hitler, the ‘Intersectional’ Führer
UPDATE: Yes, the Grievance Studies hoax is hilarious – but it’s also rather worrying
October 3rd, 2018 at 09:38
Ironically, liberal arts programs push their agendas largely to create jobs in academia for themselves, all the while hating capitalism.
October 3rd, 2018 at 09:51
Funny thing, the Soviet nomenklatura did the same thing.