Here is the testimony of Erec Smith before the USA Congress in March 2024 on the ethics of DEI (in the UK often called EDI) and its weaknesses and effects when infused with uncompromising Critical Social Justice narratives… Taken from Substack article: read the original and subscribe here https://freeblackthought.substack.com/p/the-impact-of-dei-on-college-campuses?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2. Journal of Free Black Thought is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support their work,

Colin recently found another great post from Professor Steven James Lawrence. Colin had the opportunity to talk through it with the author and has just received this personal comment:

“Thank you so much for reading this post and especially for conversation. I really appreciate your obvious moral clarity and rigorous inquiry process. Top notch new friend!”

In the rush to be seen as Thought-Leaders, need to stay grounded and humble!  By Colin Wilson 10 January 2024 Happy New Year everyone! This blog is a copy of my response to an invitation to a Climate-change-response advocacy workshop for executive coaches. Responses and challenges to my words are welcome. Colin. Thanks for the invitation. A bit short notice for me. Before jumping on

*Originally published on Medium.com by Nick Argall (with an analysis by S.P.A.’s Colin Wilson at the end) Nick says: I tend not to shy away from controversial topics, and I enjoy having intelligent disagreements with people. If I’ve started a disagreement with you, that’s an indicator that I think you’re intelligent, and that you might say something to me in response that might give me

King Charles’ Coronation today is an amazing education or reminder of how the British Constitution is knit together, along with the Commonwealth, as a complex tapestry, forming over time the culture and structure within which we live. Magna Carta over 800 years ago was huge, the start of commoners’ individual rights. The King accepted under duress to agree that he could not oppress commoners (and

Staying grounded when the temptation to conform to narratives is overwhelming Gems from Steven J Lawrence, 27 December 2022 Steven is a very thoughtful USA writer on modern social philosophy. He presented (as did I) at the 2022 Counterweight Conference (online but based in London). Here are some gems from his December blog, entitled: Staying grounded when the temptation to conform to narratives is overwhelming:

Robin DiAngelo published White Fragility in 2018. It was notable amongst other things by the willingness to dispense NLP101’s caution about ‘generalisations, omissions and distortions’ and to explicitly generalise about ‘white people’, based on the invisible power and unconsciousness of systems. Amiel Handelsman writes the best review I’ve seen on the book, in two parts. Part One looks for its truth and value; Part Two

I was a co-speaker with Amiel at an online Conference (not that we’ve met, but we exchanged emails after). He’s brilliant at being a Radical Moderate in the Culture Wars. Here Amiel provides a very intelligent, sensitive review of Ibram X. Kendi’s How to be an Antiracist. Read the review and see the weaknesses as well as the contributions of Kendi’s book. Amiel’s conclusion? A dozen

Colin really goes off on one! Here he writes a kind of poem, a dystopian allegory for students of post-modernism and neo-marxism. Written to Executive Coaching Supervisors, it’s a warning about how our minds can get warped and seduced by ego and narcissistic open-mindedness. But it can mean many different things (that’s what post-modernism does!), and what it means to you, it means to you!

If you are trying to understand what’s right, wrong, good and bad about modern social equity philosophy, here’s a nice piece from David Honeg and Steven Lawrence. It looks at the USA history of racist policy and its effects today. It also looks at how we need thoughtful policy as a result, not what Steven calls Pop-CRT. Hope it’s useful in helping you come to your