At a time when we are inundated with accusations of just about everyone being some form of an ist or a phobe, we have also seen the proliferation of all sorts of victim studies departments at various universities.  For example, one count has found over 900 departments of women's studies worldwide.  It's not hard to see a connection there. It's these various grievance studies departments, be they women's studies, gender studies, African-American studies, Chicano studies, whiteness studies (in this case, the whiteness is obviously bad), or whatever, that have done more than anyone else to bring us the modern curse of intersectionalism, where everyone is divided by supposed privilege and then sorted by how much victimhood his immutable characteristics bestow upon him. It's no longer disputable that the scholarly standards of these departments leaves something to be desired.  Three academics, Helen Pluckrose, James A....(Read Full Article)