Record Turnout for 2000 American Renaissance Conference
James Lubinskas, American Renaissance, May 2000
More than 200 people from all around the country gathered in northern Virginia over the weekend of March 31-April 2nd for the fourth
American Renaissance conference. The mostly-American audience was joined by participants from Canada, England and France. A small protest by a far-left student group provided added entertainment to what all participants agreed was an entirely successful conference.
The meeting was held at the Sheraton Hotel in Reston, Virginia, and began with a Friday evening cocktail reception. The general session on Saturday opened with Richard Lynn of the Ulster Institute for Social Research, who discussed the history and impact of Third-World immigration on Britain. He noted that despite Enoch Powell’s famous warning that “we are building our own funeral pyre,” non-white immigration continues in the face of popular opposition. Arranged marriages, f
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The toxic ideas that have corrupted today’s universities all began as tiny, obscure musings before escaping from the laboratories. They may have started with an unpublished paper or two, a request for modest institutional funding, or an informal discussion group. Eventually, they earn a panel at a regional disciplinary convention and an experimental course. In a few years, the “little idea” has metastasized into a full-blown intellectual plague.
Particularly disturbing is that the intellectual soundness of this “little idea” has no relationship to its burgeoning appeal the opposite may be true: the wackier it is, the more alluring for career-minded academics chasing “the next big thing.” How else can one explain critical race theory, academic-style feminism, the deconstruction mania, and, alas, much more?
January 19, 2021
A political science professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign warns about a new “intellectual plague” that could take over universities.
“The toxic ideas that have corrupted today’s universities all began as tiny, obscure musings before escaping from the laboratories,” Robert Weissberg (
right) wrote in an essay for
Minding the Campus. He said the next disease to worry about is the proliferation of programs in “hate studies.”
“This incipient plague embraces the very essence of totalitarianism the criminalization of thinking,” Weissberg said. “Out with criminal behavior, in with thoughtcrime.”
The professor mentions Bard College as one supporter of hate studies. It has a fall 2020 “Hate Studies Initiative.”