Betraying the premises and ethics of anthropology, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) has thrown its weight behind the anti-Israel, antisemitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. This is the final act in transforming a field of honest academic...
Philip Carl Salzman
Why Are Native Impersonators Fired While Female Impersonators Are Celebrated?
The president of Memorial University of Newfoundland, Vianne Timmons, was fired by the university’s Board of Regents in April 2023, according to an Epoch Times report. She had claimed that her father’s great-great-grandmother was Mi’kmaq. This claim was challenged by...
Reverse Racism Harms Us All
Justifying one form of racism justifies all forms of racism, historical and to be invented. All advocates of racism claim that their vilifying and persecuting certain categories of people are justified. Today, the fact that certain census categories of people are...
How Reverse Discrimination Undermines Our Culture and Citizenship
American and Canadian institutions — business, education, military, medical, legal, and government — have all intentionally instituted systemic discrimination against white citizens who are increasingly treated as villains or excluded entirely. In the past, when the...
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The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long...
How Our Illiberal Universities Betray Liberal Democracy
The quest for knowledge at our universities has ended because knowledge is “settled”: science, philosophy, sociology, ethics, and politics are all settled. The time for questions is over; now is the time for action, for activism, for transforming society and culture....
What Is A University Student?
As a result of government and university policies in both the U.S. and Canada, university students are not seen as individuals with records of educational achievement and the potential for both success in higher education and for contributions beyond in the wider...
From Postcolonial Theory to Toxic Masculinity: What Students Learn at Canadian Universities
Did you know that all of the evil in the world was brought about by Western imperialism and colonialism? That is the message of “postcolonial theory,” the dominant narrative in university social sciences, humanities, and education. Canada in particular is a “colonial...
Do Our Woke Universities Live Up to Their Own Values?
Each of our great universities used to have official mottos that were meant to stand for their values. For example, McGill University’s was “Grandescunt Aucta Labore,” ‘by work, all things increase and grow’; Western University’s was “Veritas et Utilitas,” ‘truth and...
Defund the Police? How About We Defund the Universities.
Our universities have nurtured and foisted on America and Canada an extreme radicalism that vilifies American and Canadian history, society, and culture. This radicalism stems in the first instance from identity grievance studies programs, such as feminist and gender...
Lies at the Heart of Identity Politics
Identity politics demands the reduction of individual identity to collective census category identities. You are no longer an individual person with hopes and fears, talents and abilities, and motivations and opinions. The most important thing about you is your sex,...
Lies at the Heart of Identity Politics: Why do individuals insist on professing their professional accomplishments through identifying their gender and race? Q: "During the vice presidential debate in the United States, were you struck by Kamala Harris's need to tell...
‘Social Justice’ is Extortion
The Mafia is not as good at extortion as “social justice” activists. Feminists and race activists have successfully invoked moralism to demand preferences, special benefits, and power. The legal cover for this extortion comes in the form of “affirmative action” and...
Phillip Carl Salzman Speaks with Gabriel Andrade (Dubai) About Slavery, Racism, and Campus Life in the United States
Dr. Phillip Salzman and Gabriel Andrade speak about slavery, racism, and campus life in the United States. Salzman is a senior fellow with Frontier Centre for Public Policy and a Professor (Emeritus) of anthropology at McGill University, where he taught anthropology...