A Heretic Reprieved
Academic freedom is most vital when contested work is controversial or liable to cause offence.
Abhishek Saha
· 13 min read
Education
A collection of 435 posts
A Heterodox Education
The Constance Holden Memorial Address, 2025.
Claire Lehmann
· 22 min read
How to Build a Better Society—One School at a Time
Inside the uncompromising vision of Britain’s strictest headmistress, Katharine Birbalsingh.
Pamela Paresky
· 29 min read
Too Much Monkey Business
The questions at the centre of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial are still contested today.
Graham Daseler
· 21 min read
The Teaching Problem
The reason most teaching is bad is that most teaching follows a demonstrably bad model.
John Tagg
· 17 min read
Education’s Elephant in the Room
We devote a lot of resources to trying to equalise student outcomes, but under ideal learning conditions, individual differences in student achievement widen.
Russell T. Warne
· 21 min read
Christopher Rufo’s Pyrrhic Victory
Instead of building the broadest possible coalition for his cause, Rufo is busy making enemies of potential allies.
Matt Johnson
· 20 min read
Spurious Research as Tendentious Propaganda
A scholarly journal published pro-Palestinian activism dressed as dispassionate media analysis—and then refused to retract the paper after its shoddy methodology was pointed out.
Oliver Kamm
· 12 min read
Trump Versus Harvard
The cure may be worse than the disease.
Andrew Gleeson
· 16 min read
The Fight for Academic Freedom in the UK
How the battle for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was fought, won, and nearly lost again.
Abhishek Saha
· 34 min read
Hamas and Feminist Dissonance
Forced to choose between believing the claims of Israeli women and maintaining solidarity with Palestinians, Western academic feminists chose the latter.
Sonya Michel
· 20 min read
The Decline and Fall of Katherine Franke
Anti-Zionist falsehoods, malicious absurdities, and self-serving martyrdom at Columbia.
Cary Nelson, Joe Lockard
· 13 min read
Agitprop at the AHA
If the American Historical Association formally adopts a resolution accusing Israel of “scholasticide,” it could destroy the organisation’s reputation for serious scholarship.
Jeffrey Herf
· 15 min read
Trump and the Academic Cocoon
A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention.
Heather Mac Donald
· 12 min read
Democrats Must Pick Fights with Woke Activists
Ignoring the far-left’s identitarian agenda is not enough.
Richard Hanania
· 5 min read