Campus Speech and Compromised Safety As universities try desperately to serve two masters (knowledge production; diversity and inclusion), they will increasingly end up sanctioning speech that should be protected. Holly Lawford-Smith 31 May 2023 · 9 min read
Campus Puritans Come for an Astronomer—And His Byline By demanding that morality tests be imposed on scientific journal authorship, Geoff Marcy’s critics are creating a dangerous precedent. Lawrence M. Krauss 25 May 2023 · 12 min read
Critical Race Theory Has a Scholarship Problem For many critical theorists, the true dividing line isn't privileged people versus the oppressed; it's people who agree with them versus those whose motives cannot be trusted. Julian Adorney 13 May 2023 · 6 min read
What Is a Woman? Many Philosophers Know, But Aren’t Allowed to Say An April 17 Quillette article about sex and gender by MIT scholar Alex Byrne prompted yet another round of debate and denunciation among his contemporaries. Thomas Palmer 2 May 2023 · 17 min read
Philosophy’s No-Go Zone An MIT professor describes the outraged reaction from fellow philosophers when he argued that a woman is an adult human female. Alex Byrne 17 Apr 2023 · 18 min read
The Real Reasons Why the English Department Died Most professors would rather watch it die than reform. Adam Ellwanger 5 Apr 2023 · 9 min read
Is There Such a Thing as a Good Academic-Activist? The problem isn’t that some academics are activists. It’s that some academics do activism badly. Holly Lawford-Smith 20 Mar 2023 · 9 min read
Gender Equity When It Suits Organisations should apply the principle evenhandedly. Anthony Jorm 13 Mar 2023 · 5 min read
The Overregulation of Science Overly burdensome rules dampen enthusiasm for research and delay scientific progress. Evan D Morris 24 Feb 2023 · 11 min read
Stuck in the Middle (of Academia) Academia is a mess, but there is still hope. Christopher J. Ferguson 1 Jan 2023 · 11 min read
In the World of Astrophysics, One Failed Cancel Campaign Led to Another When Hakeem Oluseyi exposed false claims about former NASA director James Webb, anti-Webb activists tried to take Oluseyi down as well. Jonathan Kay 25 Dec 2022 · 8 min read
Bloated College Administration Is Making Education Unaffordable Our campuses are stuffed with non-academic office workers. If elected to Harvard’s Board of Overseers, I‘ll propose firing most of them. Harvey Silverglate 2 Nov 2022 · 3 min read
Child Welfare Is Becoming a Joke The field is mired in risible theory and impenetrable jargon, and increasingly divorced from concern with the welfare of children. Naomi Schaefer Riley 16 Sep 2022 · 5 min read
Why I Left Academia (Since You're Wondering) I didn’t have a choice. Thousands of people are driven out of the profession each year. William Deresiewicz 17 Aug 2022 · 15 min read
Critical Race Theory Wasn’t Always Like This The version of CRT that I studied in the 1990s offered a useful critique of American institutions—rather than a moral condemnation of American souls. Jonathan Kay 20 Jun 2022 · 5 min read