One of the great impediments to understanding the progressive ideology of our age is the fact that it lacks a founding charter. There is no single, comprehensive, and authoritative document that clearly states the end goals of progressivism and ties together its disparate strands. Progressivism’s overarching aims must therefore be pieced together from various sources.
While certain texts are indispensable in this regard—John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice and Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex immediately come to mind—much can be learned from anodyne bureaucratic documents. With students returning to campus this month, I stumbled upon one such little gem: the University of Minnesota Duluth’s guidelines for a “Diversity Awareness Activity.”
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