Prison or Peer Review
Nathan Cofnas: what was done and what was owed.
Rosalind Arden
· 10 min read
Education
A collection of 443 posts
In Defence of Academic Standards
To rediscover the university’s true purpose, we must return to our core practice of making distinctions.
Oliver Traldi
· 8 min read
Other People's Children
Nikole Hannah-Jones put racial solidarity ahead of her daughter’s education. Her daughter—and plenty of black parents—saw the mistake more clearly than she did.
Corey Walker
· 8 min read
The Learning Crisis Begins Before the Classroom
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.
David C. Geary, Lewis G. Halsey
· 5 min read
Institutional Failures in the Garden of Great Intellects
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.
Rosalind Arden
· 11 min read
Cambridge and the Stigmatisation of Intelligence Research
Nathan Cofnas joins a historical line of academics demonised for delivering unwelcome or upsetting news about group differences.
Richard J. Haier
· 6 min read
Show Us the Prompts
How AI prose exploits the charity that makes reading possible.
Maarten Boudry
· 9 min read
The Tip of the Iceberg
The Jason Arday fiasco is a reminder why academia has developed a reputation for cowardice, careerism, and conformism in recent years.
Andrew Hammel
· 7 min read
What Is the Point of Anthropology?
How a discipline lost interest in the people it was founded to understand.
Robert Lynch
· 11 min read
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
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
· 10 min read
“Too Much Science in the Curriculum”
Tragicomic scenes from reparations-based medicine.
Steve Salerno
· 18 min read