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By Christopher F. Rufo The late 1960s and early 1970s witnessed a wave of radical, left-wing “liberation” movements emerge across the globe. Led by counter-culture philosophers and academics, these self-described “freedom fighters” embarked on campaigns of violence and terror to promote their often utopian ideals. Within a decade, most of these groups were either jailed, disbanded…

BY ANNA DOMAŃSKA THE EVER CHANGING PAST “The future is certain; it is only the past that is unpredictable”. This old Soviet joke points out to the authoritarian regime’s habit of editing and airbrushing history books and controlling the narration over history as the key to political legitimacy. Therefore, the unpredictability of the past is…

By Mason Goad and Bruce R. Chartwell The National Association of Scholars has been following the rise of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology for decades. Nearly twenty years ago, in his 2003 book Diversity: The Invention of a Concept, NAS President Peter Wood traced the evolution of “diversity” and outlined how the academic concept is…