How Woke Universities Demoralize Their Best People

I invited a friend who is an academic at a US college to write a guest piece for you about what woke universities are like from the inside. Enjoy and please share if you do! A lot has been written about how universities are too “woke”, often focusing on the most sensational stories, like people getting suspended for saying a Chinese word in a lecture on…(gasp)...communicating in Chinese, or the students (and some faculty) chanting Hamas talking points and explaining how they are an extension of “queer feminist” epistemology (because we all know how much Hamas loves queers and women), or Halloween costumes and their discontents. These stories are risible and worth telling, and don’t get me wrong, I could share a few of my own. This is a reader-supported publication. Please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. But let me share an inside account of what I think is far worse, and far less appreciated, about woke academia: it is driving some of its best faculty, students, and staff

I invited a friend who is an academic at a US college to write a guest piece for you about what woke universities are like from the inside. Enjoy and please share if you do! A lot has been written about how universities are too “woke”, often focusing on the most sensational stories, like people getting suspended for saying a Chinese word in a lecture on…(gasp)...communicating in Chinese, or the students (and some faculty) chanting Hamas talking points and explaining how they are an extension of “queer feminist” epistemology (because we all know how much Hamas loves queers and women), or Hallow