The Triumph of Scientism

The modern university has succumbed, in the name of the triple-headed god of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), to the hegemonic ideology of woke intersectionality. All decisions about staffing, curriculum, and student life must be minutely inspected for their adherence to dismantling white supremacy and patriarchy. Despite an ever-growing list of instances of campus hysteria, cancellation of conservative voices, and violent harassment of heterodox university speakers, the unquestioned cultural narrative persists: One must go to college in order to flourish as a full person in society.

Unfortunately, tuition-payers are under the false impression that woke intersectional politics has only infected the humanities and social sciences. The legendarily rigorous STEM fields—Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics—must be immune from this ideological virus, because they rely on facts, not bogus moralistic formulations, right?

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