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Lindseth has the right idea.

Has anyone else noticed that these horrible Ivy League presidents are all women?

Dozens of scholars from across the world have created a new manifesto calling for the end of “progressivist overreach” in the social sciences and humanities.

Political science Professor Eric Kaufmann told The College Fix the document came “out of a growing frustration” among academics “that social research is hemmed in by many progressive red lines.”

“This peer-pressure on academic freedom has constricted and warped the production of knowledge,” he said in a recent email. “It has made us dumber about the social world, not smarter.”

“The Buckingham Manifesto for a Post-Progressive Social Science” was originally published in The Chronicle of Higher Education as an open letter led by Kaufmann, a professor of politics at the University of Buckingham in England, on July 22.

https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/letters/the-buckingham-manifesto-for-a-post-progressive-social-science

The document was born out of a Heterodox Social Science conference that he organized at the University of Buckingham in June, according to Kaufmann’s personal substack.

https://erickaufmann.substack.com/p/post-progressive-social-science-a

The conference brought together scholars who are concerned about “forbidden topics or viewpoints (such as the negative economic effects of immigration, or whether differences in family structure help to explain racial inequality” and about the “cultural left ideology, which has achieved a position of institutional hegemony in western societies,” Kaufmann wrote.