Against Research Ethics Committees
The guidelines ethics committees follow present themselves as universal rules derived from reason.
Paul Oslington
· 13 min read
Education
A collection of 398 posts
The Meritocracy Trap—A Review
Workers are instead selected by their educational credentials, even when a degree is unnecessary
John Staddon
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 7 min read
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 6 min read