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Mar 28 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The rumors are true: @CharlesFLehman and I are starting a podcast. "Institutionalized" is about our institutions and why they've gone crazy. From education to epidemiology, from prison gangs to pornography, we'll cover it all. Episode one drops Wednesday.
open.spotify.com/show/05KDevzHa…
@CharlesFLehman Put succinctly, the premise of the podcast is that our problems are not just cultural, but structural. We ask questions like: What is about the public school system that made it vulnerable to ideological capture? What incentives drive the decline of sex?
How does the peer review process—and indeed the structure of science itself—limit the utility of epidemiological models? Why did policy-makers to systematically ignore those limits, and why did some COVID restrictions persist far after it became clear they didn't work?
What explains the rise of wokeness? Did it just "persuade" every power center in America all at once? Did law effectively mandate it without anyone noticing? Did social media make race-related controversies more costly? Is it some combination thereof, or something else entirely?
Each week, we will discuss these and other topics with the smartest guests we can find. We'll also occasionally offer our own hot takes: Charles, for example, will argue that geneticists should be exiled from the polis, and I'll argue that Josh Hawley should ban dating apps.
We hope you'll tune in.

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Mar 30
Episode 1 of Institutionalized is now live! @CharlesFLehman and I talk to @maxeden99 about how wokeness conquered the educational establishment. That conquest didn't begin in 2015, or even 1965; Max argues it began with John Dewey and the Progressive Era. open.spotify.com/episode/2Jr4c2…
@CharlesFLehman @maxeden99 Dewey wasn't "woke," but he thought that the goal of education was to promote social change. Under his and his disciples' influence, that activist premise was institutionalized in many organs of public education. And that made those institutions susceptible to activist takeover.
Max describes how this eventually played out in the Obama era, with the Department of Education mandating "restorative justice" in schools through its Office of Civil Rights.

It's not just that teachers are woke; it's that government MAKES them be woke.
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Mar 30
Last week, I reported that a lot of law schools are requiring courses on CRT.

This week, I do a deep dive into the new requirements at one of those schools: Georgetown Law.

It's not just one class; it's the entire first-year curriculum. 🧵

freebeacon.com/campus/scary-f…
At most law schools, the first few weeks of property law are spent on foundational cases of British common law. At Georgetown University, they are spent on structural racism and cultural appropriation.
Students in professor Madhavi Sunder's mandatory first-year course learn on day one that the history of American property law is "the history of dispossession and appropriation," according to videos of the course reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
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Mar 30
Proponents of the Don’t Say Gay bill should acknowledge its potential to chill reasonable, age-appropriate speech (e.g. “Sally has two moms”).

Opponents of the bill should acknowledge that what’s being taught in many schools is neither reasonable nor age-appropriate.
Puberty blockers, for example, should not be part of a public elementary school curriculum.
More generally, it’s incoherent to acknowledge there’s a problem in PUBLIC schools—which are by definition accountable to the public—while simultaneously decrying any attempt by elected officials to solve the problem.
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Mar 29
I somehow missed this last week. Both of the speakers who were protested at Yale Law School—Kristen Waggoner of the Alliance Defending Freedom and Monica Miller of the American Humanist Association—coauthored an oped on what happened to them.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
"Harassment and physical threats were reported. The police had to escort us out of the building into a patrol car for our safety.

Some students freely hurled insults including the word 'b---h,' which was particularly jarring to us as female litigators."
"The refusal to engage with someone that holds a different point of view is an intellectual sickness that has obviously infected public debate, but to see that this illness has also taken hold of aspiring lawyers is shocking."
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Mar 28
NEW: The dean of Yale Law School on Monday chastised the students who disrupted a bipartisan panel on civil liberties—but suggested there would be no formal discipline for their "unacceptable" behavior.

freebeacon.com/campus/yale-la…
"This is an institution of higher learning, not a town square," Heather Gerken said in a message to the entire law school. "I expect far more from our students, and I want to state unequivocally that this cannot happen again."
Gerken's statement came more than two weeks after nearly 120 students attempted to drown out a panel with the Alliance Defending Freedom’s Kristen Waggoner, causing such a ruckus that police were called to escort the panelists to safety.
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Mar 21
It's not just Yale Law School. It's all the law schools.

And it's not just in law schools. It's in law firms, courts, and government agencies.

At @bariweiss's Substack, I explore the terrifying takeover of the American legal system.

bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-takeover…
@bariweiss As wokeness continues to cannibalize every cultural power center in the country, many people have told themselves: "at least we have the law on our side." Lawsuits, the thinking goes, can prevent overt racial discrimination and the other excesses of wokeness.
For example, a federal court blocked the the Biden administration from prioritizing minority-owned restaurants for pandemic relief.

But the legal guardrails that once ensured against this sort of tipping of the scales are coming undone. Quickly.
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