BRAVE WOMEN:  Amidst the darkness on college campuses, there are rays of light – brave women who are bucking the system.  FROM COLLEGE FIX:  

The demands of social justice at many universities nationwide impose intolerable limits on a scholar, who must be free to pursue knowledge unfettered by groupthink or political dogma. 

Contrarian thinkers at universities are few and far between. We also may have heard from fewer women with unpopular opinions, in part because women are more likely to hold progressive views, polls find.

Nonetheless, many female academics still hold to the ideals of their profession and refuse to be silenced in their pursuit of truth and intellectual freedom. These scholars represent a wide range of views, but each woman has argued, often at great personal cost, against one or more of the dominant perspectives in academia.

We should watch their future work for reasoned critiques of ideas that may be erroneous but have hardened into dogma. We should also emulate them as exemplars of independence and intellectual integrity in a climate that discourages both.

COMMENT:  Please read this piece.  It's inspiring, even though we must be apprehensive about the academic future of brave female scholars.  The odds are against them getting anywhere, which is why we must applaud them whenever we can.

February 1,  2023