Unmaking Affirmative Action The color question has changed in America and this has implications for the logic of affirmative action. Stephen T. Asma 27 Jul 2018 · 11 min read
Through the Looking Glass at Concordia University The last elective I needed to receive my BA at Concordia University in Montreal, that I first realized something was very wrong. Terry Newman 2 Jul 2018 · 12 min read
Heterodoxy is Hard, Even at Heterodox Academy Heterodox Academy meeting is any indication, heterodox thinking poses substantially more problems than even the hardworking leaders of Heterodox Academy realized. John Paul Wright 29 Jun 2018 · 9 min read
Bill de Blasioâs Plan to Displace Asians In New York's Top Schools Just 4 percent of specialized high school students got in under this program in 2017, but de Blasio will expand this program to fill 20 percent of the seats. Daniel Friedman 27 Jun 2018 · 11 min read
Shibboleths That Exclude in the Name of Inclusion Does the applicant have experience teaching students from a variety of backgrounds? Have they worked respectfully and effectively with those students? Sebastian Cesario 25 Jun 2018 · 12 min read
Can Heterodoxy Save the Academy? Notes from the recent Heterodox Academy conference. Andy Ngo 22 Jun 2018 · 7 min read
Notes From an Academic Paper Mill Colleges offering online courses could make some basic technical adjustments to preclude most of this cheating if they cared to do so. Tammy Sheeran 20 Jun 2018 · 8 min read
My Dissertation Disaster This is your chance to write in depth about what interests you,â said my lecturers as I prepared to embark upon my History dissertation. Jack Morgan Jones 17 Jun 2018 · 11 min read
The Historian's Hubris Several Stanford University campus groups began protesting a free speech initiative that seemed designed to stir up controversy and privilege right-wing voices. Genevieve Weynerowski 13 Jun 2018 · 8 min read
The Tragedy of Australian Education The Gonski panel is the chorus and we are the audience. The play is the ongoing tragedy of Australian education. Greg Ashman 11 Jun 2018 · 13 min read
Whatâs Wrong with the American Academy A colleague of mine in the economics department once said, âwhen the price of bullshit is zero, demand is inelastic. Jonathan Anomaly 7 Jun 2018 · 6 min read
Bryan Caplan's 'The Case Against Education' â A Review But the virtue of The Case Against Education is that Caplan synthesizes many lines of research that approach the question with different methods. Noam Stein 3 Jun 2018 · 9 min read
Silence Around Test Scores Serves the Privileged Itâs true that being very smart and scoring very well on the SAT is the only way most people can have a chance of getting into an Ivy League school Daniel Friedman 30 May 2018 · 7 min read
Communicating Science in an Era of Post-Truth The solution seemed to be clear: educate the public and they will accept the science. Ryan Glaubke 29 May 2018 · 8 min read
Postmodern Theory Returns to Continental Europe Faculty in continental Europe already overwhelming lean left in the social sciences and humanities Vincent Debierre 26 May 2018 · 9 min read
