Addressing the Academic Skew
Higher education needs intellectual—not political—conservatives.
Jesse Smith
· 6 min read
Education
A collection of 442 posts
Francesca Albanese and the Perversion of Academia
Three Flemish universities are about to convey the sanction of university-recognised expertise to a deeply dishonest and fraudulent individual.
Norman J.W. Goda
· 12 min read
The Disgrace of Tariq Ramadan
The Islamist grandson of Hasan al-Banna convinced many Western liberals that he was a moderate because he promised to bridge a divide many feared could not be crossed.
RJ Smith
· 11 min read
Treating Myths as Science
Indigenous “Ways of Knowing” have no place in British Columbia’s school science curriculum.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 5 min read
Criminal Research
European jurists should not seek to arbitrate controversial matters best settled by science.
Rosalind Arden
· 14 min read
Nine Intellectual Virtues
Either universities appoint and promote professors who display and disseminate intellectual virtues, or they reward those who exemplify and cultivate intellectual vices.
Nigel Biggar
· 6 min read
The Price of the Epstein Frenzy
Press-led hysteria and institutional cowardice are inflicting needless damage on higher education.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 10 min read
A Heretic Reprieved
Academic freedom is most vital when contested work is controversial or liable to cause offence.
Abhishek Saha
· 13 min read
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