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Can You Teach Children to be Anti-Racist?

Published by Greg Ashman

In 1935, Richard Clarke Cabot, a professor of clinical medicine and social ethics at Harvard University, began one of the first randomized controlled experiments in the field of social...

Diversity, Diversity Debate, Education, Identity, Privilege, Top Stories

Anti-Colonialism’s Bad History

Published by Marian L. Tupy

Prevailing academic theories of race relations hold that wealth and power differences between groups of people arose from social, economic, and legal systems created to benefit one group of...

Economics, Europe, Foreign Policy, History, Politics, Top Stories, World Affairs

Black Lives Matter, So Refund the Police

Published by Andrew Sansone

During the summer of 2020, following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, it was easier to count how many cities didn’t have Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests...

Activism, BLM, Crime, Politics, Top Stories

How Will Decolonizing the Curriculum Help the Poor and Dispossessed?

Published by Samantha Jones

On February 8th, 2021, the Students of Color Liberation Front at the University of Michigan made a series of anti-racist demands, including a call to “Decolonize the University of...

Diversity Debate, Education, Science, Top Stories

The Fear and Fantasy of COVID-19 Vaccination

Published by Iosif M. Gershteyn

This article has been expanded and adapted from prepared remarks delivered at the Researchers.One panel “The Science and Social Impact of COVID-19 Vaccines” on March 25th, 2021. The current...

Biology, COVID-19, Health, Politics, Science / Tech, Top Stories

Georgetown’s Cultural Revolution

Published by Lama Abu Odeh

Sandra Sellers, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Law Center, was forced to resign because she was caught on video saying to her colleague and co-teacher David Batson: “I...

Diversity, Diversity Debate, Education, Law, Top Stories

Diversity, Diversity Debate, Education, Identity, Privilege, Top Stories

Can You Teach Children to be Anti-Racist?

In 1935, Richard Clarke Cabot, a professor of clinical medicine and social ethics at Harvard University, began one of the first randomized controlled experiments in the field of social...

Economics, Europe, Foreign Policy, History, Politics, Top Stories, World Affairs

Anti-Colonialism’s Bad History

Prevailing academic theories of race relations hold that wealth and power differences between groups of people arose from social, economic, and legal systems created to benefit one group of...

Activism, BLM, Crime, Politics, Top Stories

Black Lives Matter, So Refund the Police

During the summer of 2020, following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, it was easier to count how many cities didn’t have Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests...

Diversity Debate, Education, Science, Top Stories

How Will Decolonizing the Curriculum Help the Poor and Dispossessed?

On February 8th, 2021, the Students of Color Liberation Front at the University of Michigan made a series of anti-racist demands, including a call to “Decolonize the University of...

Biology, COVID-19, Health, Politics, Science / Tech, Top Stories

The Fear and Fantasy of COVID-19 Vaccination

This article has been expanded and adapted from prepared remarks delivered at the Researchers.One panel “The Science and Social Impact of COVID-19 Vaccines” on March 25th, 2021. The current...

Diversity, Diversity Debate, Education, Law, Top Stories

Georgetown’s Cultural Revolution

Sandra Sellers, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Law Center, was forced to resign because she was caught on video saying to her colleague and co-teacher David Batson: “I...

Bioethics, Philosophy, Science / Tech, Top Stories

The Transhumanist Case for Liberty

Circa 441 BCE, Sophocles set down on papyrus (most likely) his famous “Ode To Man,” a countdown of human masteries: He navigates. He cultivates. He domesticates. He preys on...

Culture Wars, Diversity, Economics, Europe, Politics, Top Stories

What Happened to Social Democracy?

In a world that seems to be divided between neoliberal orthodoxy and identitarian dogmas, it is possible to miss the waning presence of traditional social democracy. Born of the...

Activism, Culture Wars, Diversity, Diversity Debate, Family, Identity, Mental Health, Neurodiversity, Sex, Top Stories

When Sons Become Daughters, Part II: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

What follows is the second instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a multi-part Quillette series that explores how parents react when a son announces he wants to be a...

Bioethics, Biology, Education, Health, Psychology, Science / Tech, Sex, Top Stories

Diversity, Inclusion, and Academic Freedom: The Case of Gender Biology

Our university recently circulated an email message, the contents of which I found somewhat strange. Or rather, I might have found it strange had I spent the past decade...