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Sean McFarland’s claim that "Catholic" Carlow University exposes students to a wide variety of perspectives to encourage critical thinking strains credulity.
Print this article "Decolonization” has become a keyword on campuses. It refers to symbolic changes that are supposed to promote diversity and eliminate vestiges of white supremacy. Student- and scholar-activists, aided by sympathetic administrators, promote “decolonized” syllabuses that include more writers of color. Rhetorically, “decolonization” links the grievances of relatively privileged students and university employees to the national liberation struggles that swept Africa and Asia in the middle of the 20th century. The scions of our new elite imagine themselves as the wret...
Share EUROCENTRIC CHRISTIANITY, since the days of Constantine, has predominately served as an apologist for authoritarian regimes, be they emperors, kings, crusading popes, or military dictators. In the last century alone, Eurocentric Christian jargon sustained and supported brutal regimes guilty of unimaginable human rights violations. Think of how the Catholic Church, fearing the loss of power during Spain’s Second Republic, threw its support behind the right-wing politics of the usurper Francisco Franco, who cloaked himself as a defender of religious liberties. Th...