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As US Schools Prioritize Diversity Over Merit, China Is Becoming the World’s STEM Leader

In a 2018 report published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), China ranked first in mathematical proficiency among 15-year-olds, while the United States was in 25th place.

Percy Deift, Svetlana Jitomirskaya, and Sergiu Klainerman

19 Aug 2021 · 13 min read

The Journal of Controversial Ideas Is Here

Minerva says that the frequency with which the journal will release issues isn’t yet known—it will depend on the rate at which the editors receive quality submissions.

Spencer Case

28 Apr 2021 · 11 min read

Podcast 137: Sociologist Nathalie Heinich on French Academics’ Opposition to America’s Race-Based Ideologies

Jonathan Kay speaks to eminent French sociologist Nathalie Heinich, founder of a new organization that opposes the spread of America’s race-fixated academic movements into French campuses. While conservatives have traditionally complained about the excesses of “French theory,” Prof. Heinich argues, many harmful ideas are now crossing the Atlantic in

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

22 Feb 2021 · 1 min read

In Defense of Compatibilism: A Response to Edwards and Coyne

William Edwards frames the quarrel as an argument between thinkers who believe in free will

Ben Burgis

29 Jul 2019 · 10 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

“It Has Come to My Attention…” How Institutional Complaints Procedures are Being Weaponized

My cardinal sin was to publish a book three years ago called The Welfare Trait that summarised data linking personality and welfare dependency.

Adam Perkins

24 May 2018 · 7 min read