A collection of 440 posts
Differences in height between men and women—a biomarker of stressor exposure in childhood—suggest that poor early health and nutrition constrain what children are achieving at school.
The Cofnas and Arday controversies show that on matters of race, administrators at Cambridge have failed to conduct deliberate checks, failed in probity, and failed in their tolerance for unsettled science.
Nathan Cofnas joins a historical line of academics demonised for delivering unwelcome or upsetting news about group differences.
How AI prose exploits the charity that makes reading possible.
The Jason Arday fiasco is a reminder why academia has developed a reputation for cowardice, careerism, and conformism in recent years.
How a discipline lost interest in the people it was founded to understand.
Comparing yourself to others locks you into a contest you can never win and makes other people’s wins feel like your defeats.
Critical theory did not merely politicise scholarship. It made scholarship easier to produce.
Understanding what has gone wrong with journalism in the US requires an understanding of what has gone wrong with the country’s journalism schools.
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.