Denial and the Free Speech Crisis
In fact, freedom of speech has been repeatedly repressed at the University of Guelph, and this has been going on for at least a decade.
Rose Clark
· 11 min read
Education
A collection of 398 posts
What Happened When We Tried to Debate Immigration
Unless we find a way of side-stepping the extremes and debating these issues in an evidence-led, analytical way then the moderate.
Matthew Goodwin, Eric Kaufmann
· 17 min read
Academics’ Mobbing of a Young Scholar Must be Denounced
Noah Carl has been accused of academic misconduct, but no evidence has been provided to support this grave charge.
Quillette
· 8 min read
The New Evolution Deniers
The massive social media website Twitter—the central hub for cultural discourse and debate—is now actively banning users for stating true facts about basic human biology.
Colin Wright
· 10 min read
Academia's Case of Stockholm Syndrome
When done right, peer review is a rigorous process that fosters honest critique, lively discussion, and continual refinement of ideas for the mutual benefit of researchers and society.
Harry Crane and Ryan Martin
· 6 min read
Thirty Years After 'The Closing of the American Mind'
Relativism, Bloom claimed, “is not a theoretical insight but a moral postulate, the condition of a free society, or so they see it.
Jonathan Church
· 5 min read
The Problem with 'The Journal of Controversial Ideas'
The lack of viewpoint diversity among college and university faculty gives further reason for scholars to be concerned about pursuing and attempting to publish “controversial” ideas.
Clay Routledge, Bradley Campbell
· 5 min read
The Case for Dropping Out of College
What do students get for that price? I asked myself this question on a class by class basis, and have found an enormous mismatch between price and product in almost all cases.
Samuel Knoche
· 15 min read
Jews Revolutionized the Universities. Will Asians Do the Same?
The historical parallel between Jews and Asians is striking for a number of reasons—including the fact that both cases involve an explicit rejection of the idea that academic merit alone could be a tenable basis for admission.
Barbara Kay
· 16 min read
Warning: Telling a Lame Joke in an Elevator can Endanger Your Career
It is nothing short of bizarre that an organization whose members study international conflict and know the value of dialogue over coercion opted for coercion from the outset.
Richard Ned Lebow
· 14 min read
The Free Speech Crisis on Campus Is Worse than People Think
The new culture of victimhood combines sensitivity to slight with appeal to authority.
Bradley Campbell
· 16 min read
Camille Paglia: It’s Time for a New Map of the Gender World
A society that respects neither religion nor art cannot be called a civilization.
Claire Lehmann
· 12 min read
An Israeli Agent on Campus
The need for bridge-building and constructive dialogue has been overtaken by the belief that everyone in Israeli society is complicit in that nation’s uniquely deplorable sins.
Ari David Blaff
· 12 min read
Trigger Warnings and Mass Psychogenic Illness
While a trigger warning in theory guards against trauma, it has the actual effect of multiplying claims of trauma by students who are primed to expect it and have a ready-made lexicon to describe both its effects and the outrages that bring it on.
Stewart Justman
· 10 min read
The Scandal at UBC Keeps Growing—but No One Has Been Held Accountable
The school’s decision to suspend, smear and then fire Galloway on the basis of false allegations has snowballed into one of the greatest scandals in the history of Canadian education.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read