Teacher in a Tutu
Bragging about my PhD to general indifference during the second-most humiliating day of my life.
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Bragging about my PhD to general indifference during the second-most humiliating day of my life.
Young women are now outearning young men; this structural shift has consequences that extend well beyond wages.
Tragicomic scenes from reparations-based medicine.
How a brilliant mind fell for bad history and worse people.
Higher education needs intellectual—not political—conservatives.
Three Flemish universities are about to convey the sanction of university-recognised expertise to a deeply dishonest and fraudulent individual.
The Islamist grandson of Hasan al-Banna convinced many Western liberals that he was a moderate because he promised to bridge a divide many feared could not be crossed.
Indigenous “Ways of Knowing” have no place in British Columbia’s school science curriculum.
European jurists should not seek to arbitrate controversial matters best settled by science.
Either universities appoint and promote professors who display and disseminate intellectual virtues, or they reward those who exemplify and cultivate intellectual vices.
Press-led hysteria and institutional cowardice are inflicting needless damage on higher education.
Academic freedom is most vital when contested work is controversial or liable to cause offence.
The Constance Holden Memorial Address, 2025.
Inside the uncompromising vision of Britain’s strictest headmistress, Katharine Birbalsingh.
The questions at the centre of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial are still contested today.