The Free-Speech Problem on Australian Campuses Is More CCP than SJW After years of austerity measures implemented by conservative governments, Australia’s publicly-funded higher-education sector is barely solvent. Drew Pavlou 8 Nov 2019 · 6 min read
The Culture War in Communication Studies Communication studies is a broad field, encompassing verbal, written and non-verbal sub-categories. Terry Newman 7 Nov 2019 · 21 min read
Racial Slurs and Deferential Condescension We are effectively being told that, at this truth-seeking institution, it is inappropriate for us to utter certain indisputably true statements, because the value of truth is trumped by the emotional states of one or another demographic. Matthew Small 7 Nov 2019 · 5 min read
Elite Colleges Reconsidered The admissions brochures like to focus on the statistics, from the number of Noble laureates on staff to the faculty-student ratio. Erich J. Prince 7 Nov 2019 · 14 min read
Mediocrity for All! The better approach would be to invest meaningfully in the lousy schools that leave minority children so ill-prepared to compete. Steve Salerno 25 Oct 2019 · 10 min read
Experiments in Nurturing Classroom Curiosity In a classroom, curiosity should be sacred, because it motivates the pursuit of knowledge even when that includes ugly truths. Megan Gafford 24 Oct 2019 · 7 min read
Higher Education's Medievalist Moral Panic Medievalists of Color promptly issued a statement of support, describing Ramboran-Olm as “a woman of color in an organization so dominated by whiteness that it has not yet ceased referring to itself by a name that attracts and empowers white supremacists.” Charlotte Allen 22 Oct 2019 · 13 min read
Against Research Ethics Committees The guidelines ethics committees follow present themselves as universal rules derived from reason. Paul Oslington 17 Oct 2019 · 13 min read
The Meritocracy Trap—A Review Workers are instead selected by their educational credentials, even when a degree is unnecessary John Staddon 9 Oct 2019 · 13 min read
University Harassment Policy and Its Problems In its effort to protect its students from potentially awkward social interactions, the university is arrogating adult decision-making to the institution. Marilyn Simon 2 Oct 2019 · 10 min read
In the U.S. Campus Speech Wars, Palestinian Advocacy Is a Blind Spot This silencing campaign presents itself as inclusive and therapeutic. In reality, it poses a significant threat to intellectual and academic freedom, yet one that seems perennially overlooked in the campus speech wars. Andy Lamey 18 Sep 2019 · 19 min read
Confessions of a Social Constructionist If I had known, 20 years ago, that my side in the ideological wars over gender and sex was going to win so decisively, I would have been ecstatic Christopher Dummitt 17 Sep 2019 · 15 min read
How David Graeber Cancelled a Colleague At the height of the #MeToo scandal in 2018, when dozens of actresses were coming forward with sordid testimonies about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual predation, a much more obscure scandal was unfolding around an academic journal involving the anthropologist David Graeber. The journal—HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory—was imploding Claire Lehmann 9 Sep 2019 · 15 min read
A Flawed Defense of Safe Spaces in the New York Times Ironically, what is really needed is the restoration of the entire college campus as a safe space for people of all perspectives. James Huffman 6 Sep 2019 · 4 min read
John Adams and the Search for a Natural (and Needed) American Aristocracy But a further question remains. Where are the men—and, today, women—of real merit that our form of government allows to come to the fore? Anthony Kronman 29 Aug 2019 · 7 min read