Toni Airaksinen - Quillette

Tyranny of the Ethnography: How Lived Experience Corrupts the Social Sciences

When books are routinely used as tools of indoctrination in the regime of liberal pedagogy, when will students ever hear the other side of the story?

Toni Airaksinen

9 Jan 2017 · 6 min read

Why Colleges Should Stop Teaching “Toxic Masculinity”

For every article published highlighting a case of students being taught this ideology, there are dozens of other instances that aren’t covered by the news.

Toni Airaksinen

16 Nov 2016 · 3 min read

Review: Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream — Sara Goldrick-Rab

Paying the Price draws on an unprecedented study that tracked the educational outcomes of 3,000 young adults that entered college in Wisconsin in 2008.

Toni Airaksinen

30 Sep 2016 · 4 min read

What I Learned In My Women’s Studies Classes

Oppression does indeed exist. But, oppression is complicated, far more complicated than can be distilled in an undergraduate academic setting.

Toni Airaksinen

26 Aug 2016 · 3 min read

Forget Microaggressions, Some Students Face Hunger and Homelessness

There are many who go hungry or homeless. How can students prosper without food? Or without a safe place to sleep?

Toni Airaksinen

11 Jun 2016 · 4 min read

Confessions of a Recovering Tumblr Feminist

My blissful union with feminism ended in the same way that any long-term relationship does: with hurt feelings, a little embarrassment, and a pang of remorse over what could have been.

Toni Airaksinen

29 May 2016 · 4 min read

Where Are The Conservative Professors?

In this environment, it’s almost impossible to find anyone — students or professors — who admit they hold conservative views.

Toni Airaksinen

11 May 2016 · 4 min read

Feminism Blinds Students to the Truth About Men

Are women so smothered by the blanket of victimhood that we can’t concede that men face issues too? Isn’t the hallmark of intersectionality finding victimhood everywhere?

Toni Airaksinen

18 Apr 2016 · 4 min read

The Myth of "Rape Culture" at Columbia University

To say that Columbia has a “rape culture” is not just inaccurate, but it suggests that Columbia somehow is exclusionary not just in terms of academic elitism, but in the number of sexual assaults that happen too.

Toni Airaksinen

25 Feb 2016 · 5 min read

The Thought Police Aren’t Administrators—They’re Us College Kids

Students at residential colleges live in an oppressively tight bubble of conformity.

Toni Airaksinen

23 Jan 2016 · 4 min read

I’m Not a Feminist—Even Though I Attend a Women's College

Feminism is purported to be a movement towards equality. Fair enough. Most reasonable people support that.

Toni Airaksinen

13 Jan 2016 · 5 min read