Sociology's Stagnation
The curricula of sociology departments are so deeply flawed that they will need to be revised from the ground up.
Brian Boutwell
· 11 min read
Academic Freedom
A collection of 55 posts
Why Social Scientists Should Not Participate in the March for Science
Why? For one, there is very little political and ideological diversity in the social sciences.
Clay Routledge
· 6 min read
Tyranny of the Ethnography — How Lived Experience Corrupts the Social Sciences
When books are routinely used as tools of indoctrination in the regime of liberal pedagogy, when will students ever hear the other side of the story?
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 6 min read
Monks in High Towers — A Plea to Our Fellow Academics
We should remember that the creation of knowledge is generally a positive sum game. When practitioners in one field make progress and gain insight, all fields stand to benefit.
Jonathan Anomaly, Brian Boutwell
· 11 min read
Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity
Williams concludes the interview by calling for greater intellectual diversity in the academy and a return to an open marketplace of ideas.
Sean Stevens
· 3 min read
University Feminists Are Betraying Their Movement’s Liberal Past
Feminism wasn’t always this censorious. The university feminists of today do not reflect the motives of the classical past of their movement.
Charlie Peters
· 5 min read
The Bermuda Triangle of Science
Quantitative genetic work on human behavior has also had its time in the spotlight as arguably the most controversial subject in science.
Brian Boutwell
· 9 min read
Business Journals Vow to Publish Studies That Prove Nothing
It will be important to see how many researchers and journals indeed opt to publish null-findings, and whether and how that affects their impact factor and ranking over time.
Ramon Wenzel
· 5 min read
How Criminologists Who Study Biology Are Shunned by Their Field
Biosocial criminologists endure reputational attacks often. The field of criminology is not an especially cordial place to work.
Brian Boutwell
· 11 min read
What Drives Academics Who Oppose Free Speech?
The tyranny of confirmation bias and the fanaticism of its enforcers are not only a disaster for academics themselves.
Jamie Palmer
· 7 min read