History Matters A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit. Joel Kotkin 14 Sep 2023 · 16 min read
The Peculiar Silence in the Students for Fair Admissions Decision Are racial preferences in university admissions really dead? Ethan Blevins 16 Aug 2023 · 7 min read
Are We Teaching That Slavery Is Beneficial? That slaves were able to develop beneficial skills while in bondage is a tribute to the human ability to wrest value and create meaning even under conditions of almost unfathomable duress. James B. LaGrand 8 Aug 2023 · 4 min read
RIP, Richard Bilkszto, a Toronto Educator Who Stood up to Woke Bullying—and Paid the Price Two years after being falsely smeared as a white supremacist by a diversity trainer, a longtime school principal committed suicide Jonathan Kay 21 Jul 2023 · 10 min read
After College The coming cultural collapse of American higher education. Peter Wood 21 Jun 2023 · 12 min read
What Is Elizabeth Hoover Apologizing For? So long as Hoover’s scholarship has met the standards expected of her, it is not clear that she’s done anything wrong. Ilana Redstone 15 May 2023 · 6 min read
Fear and Self-Censorship in Higher Education Unless we can conquer our anxiety and restructure the way we interact, dreams of social unification will remain dead on arrival. Ash Kahn 5 May 2023 · 11 min read
Introducing ‘The Nations of Canada’ The project that (finally) got me hooked on Canadian history. Jonathan Kay 7 Apr 2023 · 8 min read
Beijing’s Campus Offensive Chinese-supported student groups in the West are being used to control discussion about China, censor critics, and lead protests against invited speakers Joshua Kurlantzick 6 Apr 2023 · 5 min read
The Stanford Rape Hoax Jennifer Gries used claims of rape to punish a co-worker. Activists at Stanford used her lies for their own purposes. Lona Manning 3 Apr 2023 · 21 min read
Dismantle DEI Ideology The disgraceful scenes at Stanford are a flawless embodiment of how diversity doctrine distorts academic life and constrains decision-making. Heather Mac Donald 26 Mar 2023 · 16 min read
Professional Sedation Tenure is allowing humanities scholars to write and teach our profession into well-earned irrelevance. Robert Zaretsky 23 Mar 2023 · 6 min read
Peer Review as Shadow Cancelling If you think academics can avoid abuses by keeping out of politics, think again. Bruce Oliver Newsome 21 Mar 2023 · 10 min read
Exactly the Education I Needed In praise of combative and cantankerous instruction. Stephen Akey 17 Mar 2023 · 11 min read
Amy Wax and Academic Freedom The investigation into the polarizing law professor violates the most basic tenets of academic freedom. Steven Grant 6 Mar 2023 · 14 min read
