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
· 5 min read
Education
A collection of 395 posts
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 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
· 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
· 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
· 16 min read
I’m a Male Teacher Surrounded by Women. But Please Don’t Call Me a Victim of Sexism
My experience shows that sometimes gender discrepancies develop within a professional field for reasons that have little to do with discrimination, and everything to do with personal choice.
N.P. Ingram
· 11 min read
The High Cost of Free College for All
College is so accessible in the United States that it’s easier to get student loans and enroll in college than it is to enlist in the armed forces.
Daniel Friedman
· 12 min read
What 'The Coddling of the American Mind' Gets Wrong About Early Education
Young people are told to trust their feelings, that what doesn’t kill them makes them weaker and that the world can be divided into goodies and baddies.
Greg Ashman
· 8 min read
Western Civilisation "Not Welcome Here"
The new humanities maintain that for the last 500 years, Western Civilisation has got it wrong when it comes to knowledge, truth and science.
Bella d'Abrera
· 8 min read
Narrow Roads of Bozo Land: How We Came to Be Governed by Online Mobs
Visionaries may be moody, obsessive loners but without them to provide a good idea in the first place, implementers end up working diligently to implement a faulty vision, like clockwork toys set off in the wrong direction.
Adam Perkins
· 10 min read
The Preachers of the Great Awokening
Sinners are threatened not by an angry god, but by a righteous mob.
Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard
· 13 min read
The Customer Is Not Always Right: A Reply to Elliot Berkman
We have probably done more to encourage business crises and immoral managerial behaviours than prevent them, a fairly insane outcome considering how often we speak of corporate social responsibility.
David Weitzner
· 10 min read
The Hysterical Campus
When speakers need police escort on and off college campuses, an alarm bell should be going off that something has gone seriously awry.
Heather Mac Donald
· 11 min read
'Post-Truth' and the Decline of Swedish Education
Sweden has gone the farthest toward abandoning a knowledge-based core curriculum and a pedagogy in which students internalize and learn to apply knowledge under the teacher’s instruction and supervision.
Magnus Henrekson and Johan Wennström
· 8 min read
The Counterproductive Suppression of Heterodox Views on Race
In the prevailing academic climate, those who offer dissenting analyses of the problems afflicting black communities, or who support unpopular social policies designed to alleviate those problems, risk censorship, ostracization, and even the loss of employment.
Robert Cherry
· 11 min read