Diogenes In Exile

Diogenes In Exile

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Accreditors Thought They Were Untouchable. Then the States Fought Back.
What seemed impossible — reforming higher education’s cartel — is now underway in the South.
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Suzannah Alexander
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If You Wouldn’t Read “Baby’s First Nazi Book”…
…then why is it acceptable to put a book teaching kids that whiteness is evil in public libraries?
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From Campus Debate to Campus Assassination: The Deadly Logic of the Pedagogy of Discomfort
How a theory meant to “challenge beliefs” paved the road to silencing dissent—sometimes violently.
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Suzannah Alexander
What Are We Going to Do About Our Coercive Classrooms?
How the Whitelash study exposed humiliation as a teaching method—and what students and citizens can do about it.
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From Renegade Writer to Policy Fighter, My New Chapter with NAS
Taking the work of exposing academia’s failures into the halls of power—without abandoning this space.
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The Publisher Blinks: Why the Whitelash Study Was Pulled at the Last Minute
After peer review and near-publication, only an IRB review forced a rethink
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August 2025

Casual Cruelty, The Hidden Curriculum of Modern Universities
How normalized humiliation and ideological rigidity in classrooms teach all the wrong lessons
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How a Top Social Work Journal Published—and Then Erased—Abuse as Pedagogy
The withdrawn “Whitelash” paper reveals what students endure in the name of “anti-racism.” The real scandal is how normal it has become.
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The Back-to-School Wars: A Dispatch from Occupied Academia
A satirical look at back to school shopping from the front lines of the culture war
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The Quiet Collapse of Scientific Standards
Journals now reward diary entries as “research.” Here’s how it happened—and why it matters for families and patients.
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The Quiz That Explains Why Your ‘Helpful’ Comments Annoy Everyone
Meet the Hair Splitter, the Puppetmaster, and other critic archetypes—then learn what your defenses are really up to.
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Can We Make A Better Mental Health Diagnosis Plan Without Labels that Hold You Back?
The Total Mind Diagnostic Model replaces “what’s wrong with you?” with “what’s happening with you?”
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