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“Groupthink” is a phenomenon that social psychologists know well.  It was in 1972 that Irving Janis first coined the term, and since this time the concept of Groupthink has been applied to the study of decision-making in various contexts. However, all too rarely have scholars analyzed academia in terms of Groupthink.  Yet there can be…

Everyone is familiar with “peer-pressure.” Adults like to convince themselves that peer-pressure is a juvenile phenomenon, something to which only children and, especially, teenagers are subjected.  Grown-ups, we assure ourselves, are sufficiently tough-minded and strong-willed.  Unlike weaker, immature kids, we are individuals with the courage to go our own way—regardless of who thinks what. This…

According to The College Fix, a campus watchdog organization run by students, the political donations of Duke University employees are ten times higher in the year since Donald Trump was elected to the presidency than they were in the year following the reelection of Barack Obama. The Center for Responsive Politics found that Duke faculty…

Time has bestowed its “Person of the Year Award” to “the silence breakers,” i.e. those who, according to USA Today, “triggered a #MeToo national outcry over sexual harassment.” This #MeToo campaign is quite a peculiar thing to behold. First, the vast majority of those men who have been accused of sexual improprieties tend to be…
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