Reflections on the Revolution at Yale
Yale cannot help but indulge the claims—no matter how overblown—levelled against it by activists.
Jamie Kirchick
· 7 min read
Education
A collection of 395 posts
Is Safetyism Destroying a Generation?
Students now work in tandem with administrators to make their campus ‘safe’ from threatening ideas.
Matthew Lesh
· 10 min read
The Self-Defeat of Academia
We have forgotten that the privileges granted to us by society, in tenure and our intellectual freedoms and academic lifestyle, come in exchange for the value we are expectedly to produce.
Elliot Berkman
· 9 min read
The New McCarthyism: Blacklisting in Academia
What is the appropriate punishment for such verbal behavior? Reduction in salary? Firing? Firing plus blacklisting? Or, something else?
Edward Erwin
· 8 min read
The Decline of the Humanities and What To Do About It
Assessing the genesis of these problems requires a broad historical background understanding, because sociology stands at the nexus of the social sciences and the humanities.
Lachlann Tierney
· 9 min read
Unmaking Affirmative Action
The color question has changed in America and this has implications for the logic of affirmative action.
Stephen T. Asma
· 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
· 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
· 9 min read
Bill de Blasio’s 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
· 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
· 12 min read
Can Heterodoxy Save the Academy?
Notes from the recent Heterodox Academy conference.
Andy Ngo
· 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
· 8 min read
My Dissertation Disaster
This is your chance to write in depth about what interests you,” said my lecturers as I prepared to embark upon my History dissertation.
Jack Morgan Jones
· 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
· 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
· 13 min read