Speaker: Peter Wood
Peter W. Wood is president of the National Association of Scholars (NAS), serving NAS as president since 2009. He is editor-in-chief of the NAS quarterly journal, Academic Questions. He writes frequently for Spectator World, The New Criterion, The Claremont Review of Books, American Greatness, and other publications. His topics include intellectual freedom, wokeness in higher education, the DEI movement, climate hysteria, and American culture.
In 2019, he received the Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize for contributions to academic freedom.
Peter Wood is the author of several books. Most recently he has produced Wrath: America Enraged (2021), 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project (2020), and Diversity Rules (2020). Earlier, he produced several other books about American culture, including A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now (2007) and Diversity: The Invention of a Concept (2003).
Prior to his role at NAS, Peter Wood was an associate professor of anthropology at Boston University, where he also served as the president’s chief of staff. He has also served as provost of The King’s College (NYC).
Topic
There are more tyrannies than three, but this talk focuses on three tyrannies currently plaguing many college campuses.
The tyrannies in mind are:
- the racial preference complex (DEI, critical race theory);
- the climate tyranny (suppression of all dissenting views on climate change; wild extrapolations of doom-saying scenarios); and
- the gender tyranny (transgenderism; radical feminism, queer theory, anti-marriage and anti-family ideology).
By discussing these three tyrannies, the talk will explain why the suppression of free speech, anti-capitalism, and hatred of the West are efforts intended to destroy what’s left of liberal society.
