By Noah Rothman
Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 2019.
Pp. xvi, 272. $28.99 hardcover.
Social justice is all the rage nowadays. And all the rage is about social justice. Students are taking to university quads to demand action be taken on behalf of oppressed minorities, income inequality, and/or the environment. A growing number of university course catalogs include classes devoted to social justice. Campus speakers are shouted down, “de-platformed,” and physically attacked for holding views deemed unjust or dangerous. And that sums up just what goes on within the hallowed halls of academia.
Calls for ever-greater levels of “social justice” can also be heard championed in legislative chambers, corporate boardrooms, and religious congregations as well as on the streets where activist groups march and sometimes riot. (My hometown of Seattle, Washington, is infamous for its May Day revelry that begins with peaceful parades and usually ends with window-smashing riots, often directed at corporations such as Starbucks that
