For Some Adjunct Professors, It's Speak Your Mind versus Keep Your Job
Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor
· 8 min read
Education
A collection of 399 posts
Radicalized Antiracism on Campus—as Seen from the Computer Lab
The University of Washington, like most schools, tracks the performance of student groups as part of its effort to enhance diversity and reduce inequality.
Stuart Reges
· 15 min read
Deception and Complicity—the Strange Case of Jessica Krug
But the real scandal—not discussed much in the media—wasn’t Krug’s decade of duplicity.
Charlotte Allen
· 9 min read
Rallying to Protect Admissions Standards at America’s Best Public High School
The activists seeking to eliminate TJ’s meritocratic admissions systems attribute this latter result to systemic racism.
Asra Q. Nomani and Glenn Miller
· 10 min read
Ordeal by Title IX
This approach has been greeted with hostility by many colleagues. This is understandable, for it challenges humanists to climb down from the ivory tower and make their research directly relevant to the public.
Robert Frodeman
· 27 min read
Look Who’s Talking About Educational Equity
However well intentioned, these programs will likely increase inequities rather than reduce them, and push the nation’s colleges still closer to the low level of its public schools.
Lyell Asher
· 7 min read
How to Fight the Enemies of Academic Freedom
Even though large tracts of our cultural landscape and many old and famous American institutions have fallen or may fall into the grip of this hostile ideology and all the odious apparatus of cancel culture rule, we shall not flag or fail.
Sergiu Klainerman
· 6 min read
Cultural Revolution in the Renaissance?
The problem with this picture of the Renaissance is not that it has no truth to it—it certainly has some—but that it is perversely unbalanced.
James Hankins
· 8 min read
Princeton University is One of the Least Racist Institutions in the World
In his declaration of independence published in Quillette, Katz, a chaired professor in the Classics department, defends the importance of free speech in academia and accuses the authors of the letter of trying to impose unreasonable changes at Princeton.
Sergiu Klainerman
· 6 min read
COVID-19 Will (Finally) Force American Universities to Reinvent Themselves
Polarization is baked into the current system, and no reform program will completely level the playing field.
Eric R. Terzuolo
· 6 min read
In Defence of the Humanities
Scholars in the humanities are the bearers of the memory of civilisation, and their role in our society is indispensable.
Elena Shalneva
· 8 min read
In Defense of ‘Reactionary Liberalism’—A Reply to Osita Nwanevu
Nwanevu is predictably coy about affirmative action, the most explicit form of institutional racism in the United States.
Bo Winegard
· 10 min read
On Steve Hsu and the Campaign to Thwart Free Inquiry
It is not unreasonable to consider avoiding research that risks creating unmanageable divisions.
Peter Toshev
· 6 min read
Exploring 'Other Ways of Knowing': The New Religious Threat to Science Education
In its most elaborate form, EDI subjects science to the same treatment as has already been meted out to the Western literary canon: a relentless deconstruction whereby each axiom, value, and commitment is presented as infected by cultural imperialism.
Lenny Pier Ramos
· 12 min read
Bad Vibrations: The Lies Universities Tell Their Students about Sex
Universities are free to promote sexual experimentation. But they should be honest that pushing norms and boundaries involves making mistakes.
Samantha Harris and Michael Thad Allen
· 14 min read