Are Angry Mobs on Facebook Taking Over Academia?

Rebecca Tuvel started off her most recent academic paper in philosophy as many of her colleagues do, with an armchair observation that prompts a thorny question. In June 2015, the assistant professor at Rhodes College noticed what she thought to be an unusual coincidence: In the same month that transgender woman Caitlyn Jenner appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair, Rachel Dolezal, a white woman who had for years presented herself as being black, was ridiculed for lying about her race. Tuvel...