Academia - Quillette (Page 3)

Imperial College London’s Cancel Campaign Against Its Own Founders

The connection with the Beit family and its financial generosity has continued almost unbroken since the founding of the College.

Stephen Warren

21 Jan 2022 · 17 min read

The Liar’s Club: Looking Back on Princeton

In 2017, I got the welcome news that I’d been admitted to Princeton University. At the time, I was ecstatic. And I remain humbly grateful for the education I received there. But now that I’ve graduated, I’m not sure the prize was worth the price I paid

Scott Newman

9 Dec 2021 · 9 min read

An Astronomer Cancels His Own Research—Because the Results Weren’t Popular

Astronomy seems to be in trouble, as it is increasingly populated by researchers who seem more concerned with terrestrial politics than celestial objects, and who at times view the search for truths about nature as threatening. This became obvious in recent years, once the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project

Lawrence M. Krauss

10 Nov 2021 · 10 min read

Podcast #165: Peter Boghossian on Why He Quit Portland State University

“Grievance Studies” hoaxster and philosophy professor Peter Boghossian tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why he could no longer continue waging his struggle for intellectual pluralism without first shaking off the ideological constraints of campus life.

Quillette / James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian

13 Sep 2021 · 1 min read

Lessons of the Pinker Affair: The Problem with the Academy is False Beliefs, Not Intolerance

The correct response to the cancellers is not simply to say that they should respect free speech. Rather, one must say to them that you are attacking people for stating things which are true, while you are stating things which are false.

Richard Hanania

16 Sep 2020 · 7 min read

PODCAST 103: Colin Wright on the State of Academic Science, Gender, and His Latest Career Move

Evolutionary Biologist (and new Quillette Managing Editor) Colin Wright on the State of Academic Science, Gender, and His Latest Career Move

Quillette / Colin Wright

8 Aug 2020 · 1 min read

I've Been Fired. If You Value Academic Freedom, That Should Worry You

I did not enjoy the protection of tenure (I was, however, tenure-track), but we should not rely upon tenure to uphold free inquiry.

Bo Winegard

6 Mar 2020 · 7 min read

Demoted and Placed on Probation

One young man said to me, “How did you get tenure?” When I said that I didn’t have tenure he said, “Good! Because you’re not going to get it.”

Stuart Reges

11 Jan 2020 · 14 min read

Thoughtcrime and Punishment: A Year Of Shunning and Law Suits at a Canadian University

No one at Wilfrid Laurier University would give me a straight answer about anything. It was a climate of evasiveness and secrecy.

Lindsay Shepherd

8 Jan 2019 · 7 min read

An Israeli Agent on Campus

The need for bridge-building and constructive dialogue has been overtaken by the belief that everyone in Israeli society is complicit in that nation’s uniquely deplorable sins.

Ari David Blaff

9 Nov 2018 · 12 min read

The Scandal at UBC Keeps Growing—but No One Has Been Held Accountable

The school’s decision to suspend, smear and then fire Galloway on the basis of false allegations has snowballed into one of the greatest scandals in the history of Canadian education.

Jonathan Kay

17 Oct 2018 · 6 min read

The Grievance Studies Scandal: Five Academics Respond

The authors have pulled off a modern Sokal hoax. The sequel is rarely as good as the original, but in this case it was more comprehensive and more fun than Sokal’s mockery of postmodernist scholarship.

Quillette

1 Oct 2018 · 16 min read

Narrow Roads of Bozo Land: How We Came to Be Governed by Online Mobs

Visionaries may be moody, obsessive loners but without them to provide a good idea in the first place, implementers end up working diligently to implement a faulty vision, like clockwork toys set off in the wrong direction.

Adam Perkins

22 Sep 2018 · 10 min read

The Customer Is Not Always Right: A Reply to Elliot Berkman

We have probably done more to encourage business crises and immoral managerial behaviours than prevent them, a fairly insane outcome considering how often we speak of corporate social responsibility.

David Weitzner

20 Sep 2018 · 10 min read

The Hysterical Campus

When speakers need police escort on and off college campuses, an alarm bell should be going off that something has gone seriously awry.

Heather Mac Donald

19 Sep 2018 · 11 min read