What’s Wrong With a Little Political Correctness?
Political correctness is an instrument of oppression and scapegoating most prominently used by academic and political elites and enforced by mainstream news outlets. It is authoritarian, conformist…
Cultural Diversity
Diversity as Self-Nullifying Culture, in the anthropological sense, is a combination of language and traditions involving values, ideas about education, cooking, family life and public life. Culture…
Aristotelian Citizenship for a Multicultural World
One the debates confronting liberal democracies is how to conceive of citizenship in an age of multiculturalism. Liberal political theorists regard citizenship as primary a legal entity…
Thinking About the Politics of Multiculturalism
Citizenship and Multiculturalism in Western Liberal Democracies. David Edward Tabachnick and Leah Bradshaw, eds., Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017. Multiculturalism is among the ambivalences of our…
Plato’s Republic in the Core Curriculum: Multiculturalism and the Canon Debate
The Issue of Multiculturalism Plato's Republic is under fire right now. Stanford University's core curriculum students are no longer required to read Plato's Republic because it represents…
Liberal Education and Politics: Twenty-Five Years in the Academy
Everything is Political Just as I began my college teaching career twenty-five years ago, the whole academy seemed to have accepted as axiomatic the assertion that “Everything…