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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

10 Jun 2024 · 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

4 Jun 2024 · 9 min read

Why Does the Intersectional Left Defend Hamas?

Sectarian morality arises from the concept of collective guilt.

Julian Adorney

28 Nov 2023 · 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

16 Oct 2023 · 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

12 Oct 2023 · 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

30 Jul 2023 · 12 min read

If The Findings Detract, You Must Retract

How dissent is policed in social science.

Jukka Savolainen

18 Jun 2023 · 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

14 Jun 2023 · 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 Jun 2023 · 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

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 · 13 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 · 7 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.