A collection of 26 posts
As universities try desperately to serve two masters (knowledge production; diversity and inclusion), they will increasingly end up sanctioning speech that should be protected.
The treatment of a dissident professor raises serious questions about the university’s actions
How does one deal with those who claim that debate itself represents an agony beyond human endurance?
“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.
Even though large tracts of our cultural landscape and many old and famous American institutions have fallen or may fall into the grip of this hostile ideology and all the odious apparatus of cancel culture rule, we shall not flag or fail.
I did not enjoy the protection of tenure (I was, however, tenure-track), but we should not rely upon tenure to uphold free inquiry.
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.”
When speakers need police escort on and off college campuses, an alarm bell should be going off that something has gone seriously awry.
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?
Pursuing unorthodox scholarship can lead to frustration and failure, to exciting breakthroughs, or anything in between.
The tyranny of confirmation bias and the fanaticism of its enforcers are not only a disaster for academics themselves.