University Trustees Have Their Heads in the Sand
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As professors and students are returning to campus, the journal Nature has published another culture-war screed masquerading as academic critique.
In “Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them,” eight scholars representing multiple fields declare that “Western science” is “rooted in colonization, racism and white supremacy.” The task of the scientist is thus no longer the dispassionate pursuit of objective truth—the scholars dismiss the whole idea as a myth—but rather the passion-filled, “anti-racist” work of “decolonizing” the disciplines and promoting “Indigenous research methodologies.” The scholars also advance something called “citation justice,” which takes the diversity, equity and inclusion ideology to a new stratosphere. They would even sort footnotes by race, sex and sexuality.
Originally published: September 10, 2025
Author: Ben Sasse
Position: Former President
Institution: University of Florida
Published by: The Wall Street Journal