A collection of 395 posts
We devote a lot of resources to trying to equalise student outcomes, but under ideal learning conditions, individual differences in student achievement widen.
Instead of building the broadest possible coalition for his cause, Rufo is busy making enemies of potential allies.
A scholarly journal published pro-Palestinian activism dressed as dispassionate media analysis—and then refused to retract the paper after its shoddy methodology was pointed out.
The cure may be worse than the disease.
How the battle for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was fought, won, and nearly lost again.
Forced to choose between believing the claims of Israeli women and maintaining solidarity with Palestinians, Western academic feminists chose the latter.
Anti-Zionist falsehoods, malicious absurdities, and self-serving martyrdom at Columbia.
If the American Historical Association formally adopts a resolution accusing Israel of “scholasticide,” it could destroy the organisation’s reputation for serious scholarship.
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.
Ignoring the far-left’s identitarian agenda is not enough.
A tenured scholar has paid a high price for bluntly expressing uncomfortable truths.
Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism.
The story of how a liberal college promoted and defended an Iranian Islamist and betrayed its own values.
A cancelled academic has produced a fine new book about the threat posed by progressive pieties.
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.