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Posted on 02/07/2026 10:44:34 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
America’s biggest funder of the humanities subsidizes ‘Ecowomanism,’ ‘Black Trans Studies’ and the like.
The University of Virginia launched a hiring spree in 2020 as it pledged to become “a racial-equity-focused university.” A special initiative promised to recruit 30 postdoctoral fellows and “open the gateway” for them to fill tenure-track jobs. One current fellow’s specialties include “transfeminisms” and “genderqueer life writing.” Another researches how Filipino nurses resist “racial capitalism.”
The program owes its existence to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which funded it to the tune of $5 million. With a $7.7 billion endowment, the Mellon Foundation is the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities. Its annual giving has long dwarfed that of the National Endowment for the Humanities. In recent years, it has been refashioned as a tool for advancing an identitarian vision of social justice. For academia, the consequences are far-reaching.
Through public-records requests, I’ve acquired dozens of proposals and progress reports for Mellon-funded projects. The records show how the foundation has lavishly promoted progressive scholar-activism. At the University of Utah, the Transformative Intersectional Collective created workshops on “transgender and queer of color critique” and “environmental anti-racism,” supported by a half-million-dollar Mellon grant. At the University of California, Santa Cruz, the “Visualizing Abolition” project promotes research and art that calls for the elimination of prisons with the support of $8 million from Mellon.
For much of its existence, the Mellon Foundation narrowly supported the arts and humanities. One signature project was the creation of JSTOR, the widely used online database of academic research. The foundation avoided controversy.
That changed with the dawn of the social-justice era. As early as 2014, then-president Earl Lewis told the Chronicle of Higher Education that the foundation would take a more activist approach, especially around issues of race. On taking over...
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I could write a ten page memo on this topic.
Unfortunately most of it would be expletives...so I will resist the temptation.
Lol.
ELIMINATE PRISONS===TAKE YOUR CHANCES NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE.
Go back to merit-based arts and humanities—as the STEM fields still mostly are!
Otherwise, we shall eventually degenerate into oogah-boogah land!
Just another Leftist attempt to guarantee outcomes rather than opportunities.
The STEM educational sectors are not merit based.
They are hard core woke. Because STEM educational is woke, that’s why all the big tech companies are woke.
Who do big tech companies hire? College grads. Indoctrinated college grads. It’s not a hard one to follow.
Federal taxing power might be used to transfer foundation money to student loan balance reduction.
I don’t expect anything else from spoiled brat commies.
“Big techs” do not hire biologists. Biology is what I know best.
We will meet a crisis that will blow away Modern Man and his self-satisfied rational positivism like so much straw. We shall have to beg God to bestow Tradition upon us once again.
This implies old-fashioned virtue and sacrifice and a rediscovery of what it means to fight, and why.
The only other option will be to perish.
the commies and nazis and other racists have infiltrated and taken over several of our traditional charitable and community organizations
(and, sorry to have to say, also some churches and synagogues)
and mass media and colleges.
it is so sad to see this happening. it is like termites boring their way into the very support beams of our country.
“termites boring their way into the very support beams of our country”
Good analogy.
By the third generation wealthy families usually degenerate into useless parasites at best (if they mind their own business), dangerous revolutionary parasites at worst (if they try to intervene in our business).
interesting, yes there do seem to be several examples of that
US Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Charities prime among them.
Got paid to bring millions of illegals from the border to metastasize into the countryside.
Submit is an option.
“Go back to merit-based arts and humanities—as the STEM fields still mostly are!”
We have steadily moved away from that. I remember female salary bumps of 20% in 1978 in a Stem field for the same qualifications. It has gotten worse since then. Now if not in the top, then female or minority or they keep looking.
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