Education - Quillette

Katherine Franke is middle-aged. She is wearing a shirt and glasses, sitting in front of a backdrop of New York City.

The Decline and Fall of Katherine Franke

Anti-Zionist falsehoods, malicious absurdities, and self-serving martyrdom at Columbia.

Cary Nelson / Joe Lockard

20 Jan 2025 · 12 min read

6 pictures, 5 of professors, 1 of a crowd clapping.

Agitprop at the AHA

If the American Historical Association formally adopts a resolution accusing Israel of “scholasticide,” it could destroy the organisation’s reputation for serious scholarship.

Jeffrey Herf

15 Jan 2025 · 15 min read

David is a white man in his 60s or 70s with glasses

A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention.

Heather Mac Donald

28 Nov 2024 · 12 min read

Professor of African American Studies at Princeton, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. in a TV studio.

Democrats Must Pick Fights with Woke Activists

Ignoring the far-left’s identitarian agenda is not enough.

Richard Hanania

12 Nov 2024 · 5 min read

Amy Wax at a podium. She is a grey-haired lady with glasses in a dark blue jacket and white T-shirt.

The Amy Wax Affair

A tenured scholar has paid a high price for bluntly expressing uncomfortable truths.

Charles Murray

2 Oct 2024 · 7 min read

Composite image of Stokely Carmichael speaking; background is a Gaza solidarity encampment at a university

A Stupid Cartoon and the University Ideology

Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism.

Paul Berman

9 Sep 2024 · 41 min read

The Professor, His Nemesis, and a Scandal at Oberlin

The story of how a liberal college promoted and defended an Iranian Islamist and betrayed its own values.

Roya Hakakian

8 Aug 2024 · 31 min read

Totems and Taboos

A cancelled academic has produced a fine new book about the threat posed by progressive pieties.

John Lloyd

6 Aug 2024 · 9 min read

Richard Bilkszto in suit and tie surrounded by Kojo DEI promotional material including images of Kike Ojo-Thompson.

When Anti-Racism Training Becomes ‘Vexatious’ Abuse

On the anniversary of Richard Bilkszto’s suicide, a Quillette investigation explores how Ontario’s public school system was radicalised by ‘equity thought leaders’ such as Kike Ojo-Thompson.