Diogenes In Exile

Diogenes In Exile

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The Billion-Dollar DEI Pivot Nobody's Talking About
CHEA shaped policy at thousands of colleges. Now it's quietly backing away—and leaving taxpayers with the bill.
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Suzannah Alexander
Florida Fought DEI Indoctrination. So Why Is It Imposing It on Counselors?
As long as counselors must be accredited, they will steeped in DEI
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Suzannah Alexander
FAIR Files Civil Rights Complaint Over ‘Whitelash’ Study That Shamed White Students
The case exposes a growing problem in higher education: when ideology replaces ethics, students become the experiment.
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Suzannah Alexander
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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Suzannah Alexander
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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Suzannah Alexander
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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Suzannah Alexander
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The withdrawn “Whitelash” paper reveals what students endure in the name of “anti-racism.”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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Suzannah Alexander
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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Suzannah Alexander
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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Suzannah Alexander
The Diagnosis Trap: Why More Americans Are Mentally Ill on Paper Than in Reality
We’re not in a mental health crisis. We’re in a meaning crisis—coded, billed, and reimbursed one disorder at a time.
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Suzannah Alexander
Cultural Fishtailing, Why Everything Feels Like It's Out of Control
Our culture isn’t drifting. It’s overcorrecting, spinning out, and accelerating. The first step to restoring balance is recognizing the pattern.
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Suzannah Alexander
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