Defending Academic Freedom in Higher Education and Medicine The success of the academy requires academic freedom and tolerance for viewpoint diversity. These critical values are under increasing threat. Jeffrey S. Flier 25 Apr 2024 · 12 min read
The Harvard Double Standard And how higher education can reform from within. Jeffrey S. Flier 23 Dec 2023 · 12 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 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 · 12 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 · 13 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 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
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 · 11 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
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