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 28 Nov 2024 · 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 14 Nov 2024 · 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 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. Thomas Palmer 2 May 2023 · 18 min read
