Books: he Victims’ Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind

The Fraud of Identity Studies

by Bruce Bawer

On Sunday, the New York Times Book Review ran a notice of my newbook, The Victims’ Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind.  It’s about the spread in American colleges and universities, over recent decades, of faux disciplines such as Women’s Studies, Black Studies, and Queer Studies.  

It’s also about the explicitly far-left, postmodern ideology that underlies these “studies” and that now permeates the humanities and social sciences.  

Rejecting the idea that a proper higher education in the humanities is about becoming acquainted with the most glorious products of Western civilization, learning to think critically, and forming one’s own taste, the practitioners of these “studies” dismiss the concepts of objective truth and aesthetic value, depict the West as evil and non-Westerrners as virtuous victims, and encourage students to see themselves and others not as individuals but as members of groups.  Hence these “identity studies,” which find racism, sexism, and classism everywhere they look.

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