Podcast #283: Free Speech in Australia
Iona Italia talks to Alan Davison about censorship, self-censorship, the Online Safety Act and other threats to free speech in Australia.
Quillette, Alan Davison
· 42 min read
Academia
A collection of 54 posts
Spurious Research as Tendentious Propaganda
A scholarly journal published pro-Palestinian activism dressed as dispassionate media analysis—and then refused to retract the paper after its shoddy methodology was pointed out.
Oliver Kamm
· 12 min read
When Do Scholarly Retractions Become a Form of Censorship?
Focusing on the handful of papers that are retracted for political reasons can obscure the more important problems afflicting the field of academic publishing.
Ivan Oransky
· 12 min read
Trump and the Academic Cocoon
A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention.
Heather Mac Donald
· 12 min read
Podcast #259: The Campaign Against ‘Settler Colonialism’
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to author Adam Kirsch about the growing corps of academics and activists seeking to demonise ‘settler colonialists’ in North America, Australia—and especially Israel.
Quillette
· 23 min read
Open Letter Against the Boycott of Israeli Universities
The Academic Boycott of Israel Is Selective, Unfair and Counterproductive. Sign Our Open Letter Below.
Maarten Boudry
· 7 min read
Damned in Amsterdam: A Bizarre Deplatforming
We wanted to give a talk on how ideological bias hampers science—and were disinvited because of our politics.
Jerry A. Coyne, Maarten Boudry
· 9 min read
Why Does the Intersectional Left Defend Hamas?
Sectarian morality arises from the concept of collective guilt.
Julian Adorney
· 8 min read
Woke Antisemitism: A Reckoning
In their rationalizations of violence against Jews and Israelis, they’ve outed themselves as the extremists they are.
David Bernstein
· 10 min read
Literary Submission Policies Shouldn’t be Color-Coded
Some American journals now have two fee structures—one for white applicants, and one for everybody else
Leigh Ann O’Neill, Brent Morden
· 4 min read
What History Teaches Us About the Importance of Academic Freedom
This 1949 primer shows us there’s nothing new about today’s controversies about free speech on campus.
James Huffman
· 12 min read
If The Findings Detract, You Must Retract
How dissent is policed in social science.
Jukka Savolainen
· 10 min read
McMaster’s Imaginary Sex Ring
In 2020, a Canadian university tore up its psychology department in search of a non-existent network of sexual predators. Documents obtained by Quillette reveal how administrators allowed it to happen.
Jonathan Kay
· 51 min read
Gender’s Truth-Distortion Field
Across the English-speaking world, the discussion of trans rights is governed by taboos, sacred myths, and, in some cases, outright lies.
Sean Masters, Raimund Hume
· 10 min read
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
· 9 min read