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The Harvard Double Standard

And how higher education can reform from within.

23 Dec 2023 · 11 min read

The Sex of Skeletons

To suggest that a spirited discussion of the importance of sex and gender in archeology threatens “scientific integrity” is to misunderstand the nature of science.

Lawrence M. Krauss

11 Oct 2023 · 7 min read

The Cancellation of Bertrand Russell

Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled.

James Huffman

15 Sep 2023 · 9 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

Amy Wax speaks at The Center for Immigration Studies in 2016. YouTube.

Amy Wax and Academic Freedom

The investigation into the polarizing law professor violates the most basic tenets of academic freedom.

Steven Grant

6 Mar 2023 · 14 min read

Stuck in the Middle (of Academia)

Academia is a mess, but there is still hope.

Christopher J. Ferguson

1 Jan 2023 · 11 min read

And Yet it May (Or May Not) Move

If we allow ideological campaigns to discourage controversial research, we will be making a terrible mistake.

Bryan J. Pesta

16 Dec 2022 · 21 min read

Indigenous Activists Are Targeting My Research. My Own University Is Helping Them

Academics who study ancient Paleoindian populations are increasingly being denied access to skeletons, artifacts, and even old x-rays and research reports. We need to start fighting back

Elizabeth Weiss

18 Aug 2022 · 10 min read

Academic Exile, Two Years On

Academia has become an intellectual prison, and many incarcerated professors are compelled to live a dual existence.

Bo Winegard

4 May 2022 · 12 min read

Why This Feminist Is Taking the University of Bristol to Court

Next week, I am taking my university to court. To my knowledge, it is the first time an academic institution has been forced, at trial, to justify why it prioritises trans rights over women’s rights. The other party in the case is the University of Bristol, which one might

Raquel Rosario Sánchez

6 Feb 2022 · 15 min read

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

Lawrence M. Krauss

10 Nov 2021 · 10 min read

Tales From the Gulag

The administration, well-aware of these defamatory messages, did not refute them or even address their impropriety with the perpetrators of the misinformation.

Lawrence M. Krauss

2 Nov 2021 · 10 min read

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

Quillette / James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian

13 Sep 2021 ·

Diversity, Inclusion, and Academic Freedom: The Case of Gender Biology

But it is sad to see established facts now suppressed along with undesirable beliefs and opinions. And to see our institutions of higher learning being led to this kind of neo-obscurantism in the name of enlightened social attitudes.

Constantin Polychronakos

5 Apr 2021 · 10 min read

The Denial of Cancel Culture

The share of academics who lean left is between 71 and 83 percent across the first six columns, with just 4–16 percent conservative.

Eric Kaufmann

1 Sep 2020 · 14 min read