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High school students are not wrong to seek belonging, meaning, recognition, and a sense of moral clarity. Adolescence is a developmental period marked by identity formation, heightened sensitivity to social reward, and vulnerability to opportunities that promise certainty, purpose, and status. When young people are invited into a cause that frames itself as virtuous, patriotic, and embattled, especially one that flatters them as brave truth-tellers resisting imagined oppressi

“In a test of a recent Supreme Court ruling, a parent is suing Lexington Public Schools to have his child excused from LGBTQ+-themed instruction and readings that he claims violate his religious beliefs.” - Boston Globe, November 13, 2025 There is a sharp disparity between the emotional heat of this issue and the simplicity of the principle that resolves it: private belief cannot supersede public tolerance . No one can require public spheres to reflect and uphold their prefer

I use the term, “DEI Integrity” to connote the importance of practicing inclusivity with fidelity to facts, reason, candor, and courage. We are facing bald-faced efforts to eviscerate inclusivity practices, to turn them inside out, to tar and feather them, to transmogrify them in ways that perhaps even Orwell might find unimaginable. We’ve been watching and waiting, taking deep breaths, shedding some tears, wondering if and when something might happen to turn the tide of the

DEI practitioners are facing an unprecedented onslaught of efforts to flip scripts, undermine civility, defy logic, and override justice,...

Even though the legal reaction-correction times tend to lag far behind the shock and intimidation gushing out of Washington, logic, law,...

The recent New Yorker article by Emma Green, “What Comes After D.E.I.?” , chronicles what some are calling the “pluralism pivot” — a...

Generated vis ChatGPT4.5 Organizations I support in my capacity as a DEI consultant, like organizations across the country, are...

I was encouraged by the unique perspectives and the common ground in evidence during this generative discussion about DEI in this...

Photo credit: alyssasieb/nappy.co I was honored to be able to contribute to this corrective guide on how reporters should and should not...

So, where you at, SuperCitizen? Where you at ACLU? Where you at Southern Poverty Law Center? Where you at NAACP? Where you at George...

Image generated using ChatGPT4.5 The etymology of the word thug  traces back to an organized group of murderers and robbers in...

*Politicide: the systematic erasure of certain groups from civic, political, and historical recognition Part One - Do You See What’s...

Image generated using ChatGPT4.5 "Household-name companies, like Walmart and Meta, have scaled back diversity, equity and inclusion goals...

"Educational institutions should continue to foster diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility among their student bodies. The...

“...there is  such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive...

If a professional setting policies to support workplace diversity is engaged in DEI, then so too is a policymaker setting rules that...

by Frits Ahlefeldt Common sense is not so common. - Voltaire “This administration is bringing back common sense and restoring biological...

My daughter, who teaches in Cambridge, let me know that her kids were scheduled to visit the John F. Kennedy Museum today. When they got...

"The worst thing we can do with words is to surrender to them." — George Orwell Part One: What is the Essence of Inclusivity? Finding the...

Image generated via ChatGPT40 Dear NYT Editor, A parable for your readers in response to  "Alarmed, Employers Ask: What Is ‘Illegal...