WEST POINT STILL HAS PROFESSORS PUSHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY
By John Hughes
July 4, 2025
Image by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
In February 2025, SECDEF Pete Hegseth posted the following online:
“Last week, I met with the leadership of @westpoint_USMA, @navalacademy and @af_academy. My message was simple: stick to leadership, standards, excellence, war fighting, and readiness. These are MILITARY ACADEMIES, not civilian universities. I was impressed by the changes already underway and look forward to visiting each institution. Social Justice and DEI are OUT; History, Engineering, and War Studies are IN. We must restore the warrior ethos to the @deptofdefense — and it starts with our future leaders.”1
In March 2025, LTG Steven Gilland, Superintendent at West Point, reassured the Senate Armed Services Committee at a public hearing that DEI had been expunged from USMA. Recall that in May 2025, West Point professor Graham Parsons resigned publicly as he defended DEI at West Point. He maintained a public website devoted to his teachings on Toxic Masculinity and other DEI concepts in what appeared to be a violation of the orders to eliminate DEI.
At the time of the writing of this article, current USMA English professor, Nicholas Utzig, had the following book posted on his bio on the official West Point English department home page: Much Ado About Nothing And the New Awareness. (Lexington Books, 2023). He is listed on the cover as the co-editor of the book. His official bio on the
www.westpoint.edu government website prominently lists “Dr. Utzig is the co-editor of "Much Ado About Nothing and the New Awareness," and he is working on a book about the midcentury Shakespearean actor-producer Maurice Evans and his circle.”
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