Academia - Quillette (Page 4)

The Counterproductive Suppression of Heterodox Views on Race

In the prevailing academic climate, those who offer dissenting analyses of the problems afflicting black communities, or who support unpopular social policies designed to alleviate those problems, risk censorship, ostracization, and even the loss of employment.

Robert Cherry

10 Sep 2018 · 11 min read

Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole

If a formally refereed and published paper can later be erased from the scientific record and replaced by a completely different article, without any discussion with the author or any announcement in the journal, what will this mean for the future of electronic journals?

Theodore P. Hill

7 Sep 2018 · 14 min read

As a Former Dean of Harvard Medical School, I Question Brown’s Failure to Defend Lisa Littman

Pursuing unorthodox scholarship can lead to frustration and failure, to exciting breakthroughs, or anything in between.

Jeffrey S. Flier

31 Aug 2018 · 8 min read

The Self-Defeat of Academia

We have forgotten that the privileges granted to us by society, in tenure and our intellectual freedoms and academic lifestyle, come in exchange for the value we are expectedly to produce.

Elliot Berkman

27 Aug 2018 · 9 min read

Academia's Consilience Crisis

Consilience makes the case for epistemological inter-relation, put into practice by the congregation of diverse fields of inquiry.

Phil Theofanos

8 Apr 2018 · 9 min read

Postmodern Creationism in Academia: Why Evergreen Matters

The central problem with the university administration’s opinion column was that none of the accusations were relevant to the fieldwork and research in question.

Norbert Francis

29 Oct 2017 · 14 min read