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We’ll describe the contours of the underlying beliefs, what their components are, and how the incentives they have created directly and indirectly shape the academic endeavor. We’ll explore how these assumptions have made academic freedom no longer particularly free.
In Unassailable Ideas, Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor differentiate their book from others addressing the impact of the critical social justice movement on today’s academy by 1) shifting the focus away from students to faculty and administrators, 2) placing a particular emphasis on the role of social media in the phenomenon’s ascendance ...
Nov 3, 2020 · First, any initiative framed as an antidote to historical societal ills is automatically deemed meritorious, and thus exempted from objective scrutiny of its potential effectiveness. However, to use a medical analogy, not all proposed cures for a disease are good cures.
Mar 8, 2023 · Redstone and Villasenor put forth three well-meaning beliefs that, when taken “in absolutist and uncompromising terms,” hinder campus discussions and inquiry. The first belief is that challenging and undermining traditional frameworks and power structures is deemed “good” and a worthy pursuit.
On January 15, 2021 CGM hosted the launch of Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education (Oxford University Press), featuring authors Ilana Redstone (University of Illinois) and John Villasenor (UCLA). The book explores the limitations of modern discourse, especially driven by online ...
Our goal in this book is to describe the state of affairs in the academy and the ways in which all arms of the academic enterprise are affected.
Mar 8, 2023 · Based on: Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education, by Redstone Ilana and Villasenor John. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 208 pp. $32.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780190078065.
