By Eboo Patel. Should diversity officers focus on helping underrepresented students thrive on a campus, or fostering conversations between conflicting viewpoints. More...
25 février 2018
25 février 2018
If You Are Mad At Western Civ, Should You Be Mad at Pop Music?
By Eboo Patel. Memo to socially conscious students: Dead white male authors and today's pop stars and rappers have much in common. More...
25 février 2018
When the White Supremacists Come to Campus
By Eboo Patel. The University of Tennessee is just the latest campus to experience threats from white supremacists. A group called the Traditionalist Workers Party has been distributing flyers and painting UT’s iconic rock with racist messages, and white supremacist leaders have been attempting to reserve space for so-called "educational programs." More...
25 février 2018
Porn, Religion and 'The New York Times'
By Eboo Patel. A powerful piece about how porn shapes young people's views on sex made no mention of the students' faiths. Could they really be irrelevant. More...
25 février 2018
Tonya Harding, Rodney King and Me
By Eboo Patel. Is there a way to recognize the racism that produced the Rodney King beatings without ignoring the lives of people like Tonya Harding. More...
25 février 2018
Campus Identity Politics: Useful Critique or Repressive Regime?
By Eboo Patel. Learning from James Baldwin and Andrew Sullivan on the uses and abuses of identity politics. More...
25 février 2018
Does Confident Pluralism Mean Protecting Racist Views?
By Eboo Patel. We have a tradition of protecting dissenting views when they violate prevailing norms. What if the prevailing norm is protecting vulnerable populations. More...
25 février 2018
A Stronger Resistance, or a Better Order?
By Eboo Patel. Is it true that students at upper class colleges are mostly taught to criticize the things -- teaching, nursing, policing -- that kids at working class colleges go to school to learn to do. More...
25 février 2018
More Religion, Politics and the University
By Eboo Patel. This week for our course Religion, Politics and the University, my colleague John Inazu and I taught parts of George Marsden’s classic text, The Soul of the American University. Marsden claims that American universities were largely built by “men who came of age during the earthshaking national conflict (the civil war) and who inherited a sense of calling to serve God and nation in a cultural mission who founded and defined American universities.” This was the case both for private colleges that took as a principal purpose Christian formation and also public universities. More...
25 février 2018
Is Ignoring Trump Voters a Sign of Privilege?
By Eboo Patel. The organization I lead, Interfaith Youth Core, runs programs for students on how to build bridges across diversity. Since Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president, I have had to include a new line in just about every one of my speeches: diversity is not just the differences you like. More...
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