Education - Quillette (Page 18)

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

23 Nov 2018 · 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

23 Nov 2018 · 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

14 Nov 2018 · 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

10 Nov 2018 · 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

9 Nov 2018 · 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

2 Nov 2018 · 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

17 Oct 2018 · 6 min read

An Academic Mobbing at McGill

In true mobbing fashion, the extreme and racist allegations that Ibrahim was a typical Arabic misogynist and sexual predator simply do not add up. In fact the opposite is true.

Barbara Kay

17 Oct 2018 · 25 min read

What Does Genetic Research Tell Us About Equal Opportunity and Meritocracy?

Are genetic castes inevitable?

Robert Plomin

15 Oct 2018 · 18 min read

Asian-Americans' Unrequited Love of Harvard

Asian-Americans don’t necessarily think of themselves as “victims” of Harvard’s racist policies. They’re more concerned with the idea of merit—they want their admission to be judged on their resume of accomplishments, not their race.

Kenny Xu

13 Oct 2018 · 13 min read

Linda Gottfredson’s Scientific Keynote Cancelled: Why?

A profound discomfort with empirical findings emerging from intelligence research lies at the heart of the disinvitation.

Rosalind Arden

12 Oct 2018 · 5 min read

Do Advocacy Groups Belong in Academia?

Science seeks to explain the world, but explanation conflicts with condemnation, which is an important component of injustice and in turn advocacy.

Uri Harris

11 Oct 2018 · 11 min read

The Devolution of Social Science

Without the possibility of objectivity, there is no science. Has sociology become, then, just political activism? To some extent, yes.

John Staddon

7 Oct 2018 · 20 min read

When "Believe the Victim" Backfires

In this charged atmosphere, and with the national press looking on as well, two members of the UM football team—one of them none other than the quarterback and team captain—were charged with sexual intercourse without consent.

Stewart Justman

6 Oct 2018 · 10 min read

The Grievance Studies Scandal: Five Academics Respond

The authors have pulled off a modern Sokal hoax. The sequel is rarely as good as the original, but in this case it was more comprehensive and more fun than Sokal’s mockery of postmodernist scholarship.

Quillette

1 Oct 2018 · 16 min read