Christopher, l saw some of your posts and videos a few years ago and was impressed. After seeing your recent work I have become a subscriber to your substack. Your fair minded, rational and reasonable ideas place you at the forefront of individuals who are really effective at debunking and dismantling the Woke lunacy that has so much of America in its grip. Let's hope that the WokeNuts can be ousted from the institutions they are infesting and destroying.
Love the phrase “conservative counter-revolution in higher education.” I wonder, however, whether the universities will replace any educators with those not steeped in the DEI culture, and if so, where they’ll find politically center/right professors.
There are more of us professors out there than people think but so many feel stifled in a culture that is actively hostile to viewpoint diversity. Thank you.
Going back to the NPR debate, you can see Mounk had all his hopes pinned not on local parents, but on local *teachers and librarians,* whom he knows are captured by the groupthink of their far left credentialing institutions. The counter revolution has to March through those institutions, as you are doing, so we can actually trust those local teachers/librarians again. Bless you for your ceaseless efforts!!
It is your (and the Governor's) institutional approach that I find appealing - reality comes with speech - makes it full. Speech does not capture reality in-full - acts are required. They accompany one-another. If we wait for perfection to act, then we will wait until God wills the end of all things before trying to do good. Better is good - and understanding and excluding the evil that we can is a good!
Exactly ! So well said that I’ll merely add my thoughts here ! Thanks to Rufo two states now have a chance to reintroduce value - our traditional values in place of divisive propaganda that does not belong in education. First step : remove DEI ( as well as gender studies, queer theory and anti-capitalism Marxist underpinnings to Western culture’s heritage); another step - amalgamation of feminist, black, Latino (x), queer programs back into the mainstream. Russia recently listed feminism as a terrorist organization and I for one agree ! Put it back and reestablish true canon studies.
The most concise summary of your work that I have seen - your brief statement seems to include everything you have done to-date. It is a great help to be reminded of the whole and its parts in a few words.
Thx for your work to expose and push back against the trenchant dogma sweeping education. It is my experience that the equity-based DEI bureaucracy in higher Ed and k-12 functions as an end-around to the equality of civil rights legislation. An antiracist affirmative action. Removing them allows universities to hire faculty and staff who best construct knowledge rather than become epistemically bound by orthodox ideology. Yet how to best ensure viewpoint diversity going forward in FL and TX (ie. increase center and conservative thought)? Took 50-60yrs for liberal thought to give way to progressive dogma. I’m finishing my PhD in 1-2yrs in a humanities field (rhetoric and writing), am center-right socially and politically (and white, male, Christian), have fought thru 3 graduate degrees in 10yrs in progressive bastions. My ability to articulate my perspectives and criticize progressive ones has grown tremendously, against vitriol and close mindedness to put it lightly, yet despite these current legislative victories, I’m losing personal desire to remain and teach. The current emotional and cognitive cost to remain is personally high not to mention job placement should my ‘heretical’ beliefs be broadly broadcast (ie. via substack). My family (wife/4girls) and faith keep me afloat yet my academic profession/discipline will likely be a battle (internal and external) for the next decade or two, not some cozy tenure position. Only I can decide, but what could you recommend for someone in my position? 🙏
Luminas: Thank you for sharing about your internal / external struggle. The battle is long and hard. To win it we need the masses but we also need folks like you who know the system from within and are key to re-establishing a culture of freedom of speech where Western Civilization gets its due recognition. I pray that God help you "not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.: Gal 6:6-10
Thanks for the response and prayer Daniel! I feel encouraged to continue however I can in my current position and to create my substack relaying my inside perspective to any who will read it. 🙏
They need to go through the University’s College of Education courses with a fine tooth comb. They are still teaching the DEI to our future teachers on how to include the BS in the elementary and high school classrooms.
God bless you! Thanks for all you have done..I have experienced the world of DEI in a Healthcare Corp. It’s best described as a fast growing malignant cancer. I was shocked at how fast it spread into every aspect of the organization. Including patient care. I think the public is in for a rude awaking in the coming years. We will see how committed someone is to DEI principles when their loved one is having an operation performed by a surgeon who got where they are due to immutable characteristics, not merit.
Unfortunately, not all campuses are complying. The campus I work for has rebranded the DE&I department and some are now being instructed to, "create modules that will not raise flags with the TX legislature." This was the direction given to some working on a course to be presented to high school students enrolled in a summer program on our campus.
Not surprising. But if they don't follow the procedures (talk to general counsel), you can narc on them. Hopefully Rufo, the state legislature, or someone else will have a narc-line set up to help ensure compliance. It may take a high profile case or two to scare the bureaucrats into erring on the side of caution.
Amazing and the light at the end of the tunnel. Praying for the warriors like yourself whose courage and bravery in confronting this assault can turn the tide. Thank you so much.
Chris, God bless your steady and scholarly forward march to face this battle head on. Thank you for your bravery. And please know that many of us don’t just read and comment, but are inspired to act, we share your words with our legislators, join local groups, sharing there as well, and hopefully spreading and planting the seeds of change.
Sure, it should be. But the race to merit didn’t start at the same line. And, long term is now. Any thought of how some students can get up to academic speed to get back into the race?
Achieving Education goal isn’t likely, easy or even assured. Absolutely a bedrock requirement for the country. DEI is presented as a cure for the failure of education because education failed because of white people. That’s false but when there are problems, solutions appear, are almost going to fail and spawn unintended consequences. Please keep up your good work.
What about all the wokies who have just been driven underground in those institutions? Is the follow-up just ensuring that natural selection (eg wokies leaving the state) and rabid bureaucrats do their job, or are there other ways to hit them and keep them reeling? None of the Texas universities have removed a dean or chair for being too woke yet, or investigated any faculty.
Christopher, l saw some of your posts and videos a few years ago and was impressed. After seeing your recent work I have become a subscriber to your substack. Your fair minded, rational and reasonable ideas place you at the forefront of individuals who are really effective at debunking and dismantling the Woke lunacy that has so much of America in its grip. Let's hope that the WokeNuts can be ousted from the institutions they are infesting and destroying.
Thanks, Herbert!
Love the phrase “conservative counter-revolution in higher education.” I wonder, however, whether the universities will replace any educators with those not steeped in the DEI culture, and if so, where they’ll find politically center/right professors.
That's exactly what we're doing! It's time for institutional reconquest.
There are more of us professors out there than people think but so many feel stifled in a culture that is actively hostile to viewpoint diversity. Thank you.
Time to be un-stifled! ♥️
Going back to the NPR debate, you can see Mounk had all his hopes pinned not on local parents, but on local *teachers and librarians,* whom he knows are captured by the groupthink of their far left credentialing institutions. The counter revolution has to March through those institutions, as you are doing, so we can actually trust those local teachers/librarians again. Bless you for your ceaseless efforts!!
Exactly right. They know the bureaucracy will do their bidding.
It is your (and the Governor's) institutional approach that I find appealing - reality comes with speech - makes it full. Speech does not capture reality in-full - acts are required. They accompany one-another. If we wait for perfection to act, then we will wait until God wills the end of all things before trying to do good. Better is good - and understanding and excluding the evil that we can is a good!
Well said!
Exactly ! So well said that I’ll merely add my thoughts here ! Thanks to Rufo two states now have a chance to reintroduce value - our traditional values in place of divisive propaganda that does not belong in education. First step : remove DEI ( as well as gender studies, queer theory and anti-capitalism Marxist underpinnings to Western culture’s heritage); another step - amalgamation of feminist, black, Latino (x), queer programs back into the mainstream. Russia recently listed feminism as a terrorist organization and I for one agree ! Put it back and reestablish true canon studies.
It is time for the long march through the institutions to be replaced by the brisk bum's rush back out again! Preferably into a grease dumpster.
The most concise summary of your work that I have seen - your brief statement seems to include everything you have done to-date. It is a great help to be reminded of the whole and its parts in a few words.
Thx for your work to expose and push back against the trenchant dogma sweeping education. It is my experience that the equity-based DEI bureaucracy in higher Ed and k-12 functions as an end-around to the equality of civil rights legislation. An antiracist affirmative action. Removing them allows universities to hire faculty and staff who best construct knowledge rather than become epistemically bound by orthodox ideology. Yet how to best ensure viewpoint diversity going forward in FL and TX (ie. increase center and conservative thought)? Took 50-60yrs for liberal thought to give way to progressive dogma. I’m finishing my PhD in 1-2yrs in a humanities field (rhetoric and writing), am center-right socially and politically (and white, male, Christian), have fought thru 3 graduate degrees in 10yrs in progressive bastions. My ability to articulate my perspectives and criticize progressive ones has grown tremendously, against vitriol and close mindedness to put it lightly, yet despite these current legislative victories, I’m losing personal desire to remain and teach. The current emotional and cognitive cost to remain is personally high not to mention job placement should my ‘heretical’ beliefs be broadly broadcast (ie. via substack). My family (wife/4girls) and faith keep me afloat yet my academic profession/discipline will likely be a battle (internal and external) for the next decade or two, not some cozy tenure position. Only I can decide, but what could you recommend for someone in my position? 🙏
Luminas: Thank you for sharing about your internal / external struggle. The battle is long and hard. To win it we need the masses but we also need folks like you who know the system from within and are key to re-establishing a culture of freedom of speech where Western Civilization gets its due recognition. I pray that God help you "not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.: Gal 6:6-10
Thanks for the response and prayer Daniel! I feel encouraged to continue however I can in my current position and to create my substack relaying my inside perspective to any who will read it. 🙏
They need to go through the University’s College of Education courses with a fine tooth comb. They are still teaching the DEI to our future teachers on how to include the BS in the elementary and high school classrooms.
God bless you! Thanks for all you have done..I have experienced the world of DEI in a Healthcare Corp. It’s best described as a fast growing malignant cancer. I was shocked at how fast it spread into every aspect of the organization. Including patient care. I think the public is in for a rude awaking in the coming years. We will see how committed someone is to DEI principles when their loved one is having an operation performed by a surgeon who got where they are due to immutable characteristics, not merit.
Unfortunately, not all campuses are complying. The campus I work for has rebranded the DE&I department and some are now being instructed to, "create modules that will not raise flags with the TX legislature." This was the direction given to some working on a course to be presented to high school students enrolled in a summer program on our campus.
There must be consequences.
Not surprising. But if they don't follow the procedures (talk to general counsel), you can narc on them. Hopefully Rufo, the state legislature, or someone else will have a narc-line set up to help ensure compliance. It may take a high profile case or two to scare the bureaucrats into erring on the side of caution.
We are on it.
Thank you for all you do - you are a man of integrity and courage!
Amazing and the light at the end of the tunnel. Praying for the warriors like yourself whose courage and bravery in confronting this assault can turn the tide. Thank you so much.
Appreciate it!
Keep this great work coming!!!!
Thank you!
You have up-dated the word 'reconquista' and made it so much more enjoyable. A stunning success in these states...with more to come! Thank you Chris.
A great word.
Just upgraded to Founding member.
Keep up the great work.
Any chance of your appearing with Loury and McWhorter on Glenn's podcast?
Thank you, Mark! Yes, I hope to go on the show this summer when my book is out.
Go Chris!
Chris, God bless your steady and scholarly forward march to face this battle head on. Thank you for your bravery. And please know that many of us don’t just read and comment, but are inspired to act, we share your words with our legislators, join local groups, sharing there as well, and hopefully spreading and planting the seeds of change.
One step at a time! We'll get there.
Sure, it should be. But the race to merit didn’t start at the same line. And, long term is now. Any thought of how some students can get up to academic speed to get back into the race?
Better K-12 education, more robust school choice options, stronger families, and a culture change focused on academic excellence.
Achieving Education goal isn’t likely, easy or even assured. Absolutely a bedrock requirement for the country. DEI is presented as a cure for the failure of education because education failed because of white people. That’s false but when there are problems, solutions appear, are almost going to fail and spawn unintended consequences. Please keep up your good work.
Congrats on your win!
What about all the wokies who have just been driven underground in those institutions? Is the follow-up just ensuring that natural selection (eg wokies leaving the state) and rabid bureaucrats do their job, or are there other ways to hit them and keep them reeling? None of the Texas universities have removed a dean or chair for being too woke yet, or investigated any faculty.
We will expose them and enforce the law.