The Drayton Icon and Intellectual Vice Nevertheless, Drayton’s diatribe does reveal something important—not much about me, something about him, but mostly about the vices that fester in certain reaches of our universities, which serve to undermine rational dialogue and public norms of liberal civility. Nigel Biggar 27 Aug 2019 · 19 min read
For Students Who Grew Up Poor, An Elite Campus Can Seem Like a Sea of Wealth and Snobbery The rich kids at Gulliver, those who drove Range Rovers and boasted of extravagant vacations, were not black. But at Amherst, many of my new wealthy classmates were. Anthony Abraham Jack 24 Aug 2019 · 12 min read
The Knowledge Gap—A Review This is a dimension where knowledge of the world—that same prior knowledge that needs activating—is the last thing that it would occur to anyone to actually teach children in schools. Greg Ashman 8 Aug 2019 · 7 min read
PODCAST 48: Professor Bruce Gilley on Anti-Conservative Bias on Campus Toby Young talks to Bruce Gilley, professor of political science at Portland State, about not being able to get his course on conservative political thought approved by his faculty, and his efforts to fight back against progressive authoritarianism on campus. He recently published a piece in Quillette about why he Quillette / Toby Young 7 Aug 2019 · 1 min read
The Other Crisis in Psychology psychological scientists recognize unwarranted causal inferences when evaluating others’ research but miss it in their own, perhaps because of ideological and self-serving biases. April L. Bleske-Rechek 30 Jul 2019 · 16 min read
When ‘Ethics Review’ Becomes Ideological Review: The Case of Peter Boghossian To a modern research scientist, all of this will seem like common sense, and such principles now are taught even in some undergraduate courses. Brayden Whitlock 29 Jul 2019 · 9 min read
The Role of Politics in Academic Philosophy Clearly it is possible to do politics in philosophy without doing political philosophy. Oliver Traldi 26 Jul 2019 · 6 min read
Age of Amnesia The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. But, without an understanding and appreciation of what allowed it to flourish, it could also accelerate its dissolution. Joel Kotkin 15 Jul 2019 · 9 min read
From Academia to Hollywood: An Interview with Tony Tost Right now, I’m maybe most spooked by how a living, breathing cultural memory is seeming to evaporate. Clay Routledge 13 Jul 2019 · 21 min read
Conservatives in Philosophy: A Brief Rejoinder to Tristan Rogers If the whole academe is meant to pursue truth, then it can be fine for different traditions to develop that are not perfect ideological representatives of society at large. Shelby T. Hanna 12 Jul 2019 · 5 min read
The Fog of Youth: The Cornell Student Takeover, 50 Years On The ethical shortcomings of the 1969 Cornell student rebellion, which appear so glaring today, were anything but clear to us radical activists at the time. Tony Fels 25 Jun 2019 · 27 min read
Ideology and Facts Collide at Oberlin College The recently concluded libel trial involving Oberlin College offered a demonstration of this phenomenon on the part of both the defendants and much of the media covering the case. Daniel McGraw 20 Jun 2019 · 15 min read
Science vs. Purpose: The College Board’s New Adversity Index Claims over what is being measured by a standardized assessment (referred to as a test’s construct) are where claims of scientific rigor can distort understanding of social goals associated with a particular test. Jonathan Haber 12 Jun 2019 · 7 min read
How the 'Underground Grammarian' Taught Me to Tell Reason from Rubbish Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education. Mark Andre Alexander 10 Jun 2019 · 13 min read
The Bitter Debate over School Discipline It may be neither politically correct nor pleasant to argue that aggregate group differences in behavior exist, but it’s essential for policymakers to have the proper diagnosis lest the prescribed cure do more harm than good. Max Eden 31 May 2019 · 6 min read