A collection of 54 posts
By demanding that morality tests be imposed on scientific journal authorship, Geoff Marcy’s critics are creating a dangerous precedent.
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.
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.
An MIT professor describes the outraged reaction from fellow philosophers when he argued that a woman is an adult human female.
Most professors would rather watch it die than reform.
The problem isn’t that some academics are activists. It’s that some academics do activism badly.
Organisations should apply the principle evenhandedly.
Overly burdensome rules dampen enthusiasm for research and delay scientific progress.
Academia is a mess, but there is still hope.
When Hakeem Oluseyi exposed false claims about former NASA director James Webb, anti-Webb activists tried to take Oluseyi down as well.
Our campuses are stuffed with non-academic office workers. If elected to Harvard’s Board of Overseers, I‘ll propose firing most of them.
The field is mired in risible theory and impenetrable jargon, and increasingly divorced from concern with the welfare of children.
I didn’t have a choice. Thousands of people are driven out of the profession each year.
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.
How does one deal with those who claim that debate itself represents an agony beyond human endurance?