What an Eighth Grader Taught Me About Status
Comparing yourself to others locks you into a contest you can never win and makes other people’s wins feel like your defeats.
Robert Lynch
· 9 min read
Education
A collection of 434 posts
The Crisis in the Humanities Is Not About Money
Critical theory did not merely politicise scholarship. It made scholarship easier to produce.
Abraham Wyner
· 12 min read
The Miseducation of American Journalists
Understanding what has gone wrong with journalism in the US requires an understanding of what has gone wrong with the country’s journalism schools.
Steve Salerno
· 16 min read
Teacher in a Tutu
Bragging about my PhD to general indifference during the second-most humiliating day of my life.
Robert Lynch
· 5 min read
The Emerging Female Wage Premium
Young women are now outearning young men; this structural shift has consequences that extend well beyond wages.
David Maywald
· 9 min read
“Too Much Science in the Curriculum”
Tragicomic scenes from reparations-based medicine.
Steve Salerno
· 18 min read
The Professor and the Pariah
How a brilliant mind fell for bad history and worse people.
Michael Cohen
· 7 min read
Addressing the Academic Skew
Higher education needs intellectual—not political—conservatives.
Jesse Smith
· 6 min read
Francesca Albanese and the Perversion of Academia
Three Flemish universities are about to convey the sanction of university-recognised expertise to a deeply dishonest and fraudulent individual.
Norman J.W. Goda
· 12 min read
The Disgrace of Tariq Ramadan
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.
RJ Smith
· 11 min read
Treating Myths as Science
Indigenous “Ways of Knowing” have no place in British Columbia’s school science curriculum.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 5 min read
Criminal Research
European jurists should not seek to arbitrate controversial matters best settled by science.
Rosalind Arden
· 14 min read
Nine Intellectual Virtues
Either universities appoint and promote professors who display and disseminate intellectual virtues, or they reward those who exemplify and cultivate intellectual vices.
Nigel Biggar
· 6 min read
The Price of the Epstein Frenzy
Press-led hysteria and institutional cowardice are inflicting needless damage on higher education.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 10 min read
A Heretic Reprieved
Academic freedom is most vital when contested work is controversial or liable to cause offence.
Abhishek Saha
· 13 min read