Thirty Years After The Closing of the American Mind
Relativism, Bloom claimed, “is not a theoretical insight but a moral postulate, the condition of a free society, or so they see it.
Jonathan Church
· 5 min read
Education
A collection of 439 posts
The Problem with the Journal of Controversial Ideas
The lack of viewpoint diversity among college and university faculty gives further reason for scholars to be concerned about pursuing and attempting to publish “controversial” ideas.
Clay Routledge, Bradley Campbell
· 5 min read
The Case for Dropping Out of College
What do students get for that price? I asked myself this question on a class by class basis, and have found an enormous mismatch between price and product in almost all cases.
Samuel Knoche
· 15 min read
Jews Revolutionised the Universities — Will Asians Do the Same?
The historical parallel between Jews and Asians is striking for a number of reasons—including the fact that both cases involve an explicit rejection of the idea that academic merit alone could be a tenable basis for admission.
Barbara Kay
· 16 min read
Warning — Telling a Lame Joke in an Elevator Can Endanger Your Career
It is nothing short of bizarre that an organization whose members study international conflict and know the value of dialogue over coercion opted for coercion from the outset.
Richard Ned Lebow
· 14 min read
The Free Speech Crisis on Campus Is Worse Than People Think
The new culture of victimhood combines sensitivity to slight with appeal to authority.
Bradley Campbell
· 16 min read
Camille Paglia — It's Time for a New Map of the Gender World
A society that respects neither religion nor art cannot be called a civilization.
Claire Lehmann
· 11 min read
An Israeli Agent on Campus
The need for bridge-building and constructive dialogue has been overtaken by the belief that everyone in Israeli society is complicit in that nation’s uniquely deplorable sins.
Ari David Blaff
· 12 min read
Trigger Warnings and Mass Psychogenic Illness
While a trigger warning in theory guards against trauma, it has the actual effect of multiplying claims of trauma by students who are primed to expect it and have a ready-made lexicon to describe both its effects and the outrages that bring it on.
Stewart Justman
· 10 min read
The Scandal at UBC Keeps Growing — But No One Has Been Held Accountable
The school’s decision to suspend, smear and then fire Galloway on the basis of false allegations has snowballed into one of the greatest scandals in the history of Canadian education.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
An Academic Mobbing at McGill
In true mobbing fashion, the extreme and racist allegations that Ibrahim was a typical Arabic misogynist and sexual predator simply do not add up. In fact the opposite is true.
Barbara Kay
· 25 min read
What Does Genetic Research Tell Us About Equal Opportunity and Meritocracy?
Are genetic castes inevitable?
Robert Plomin
· 18 min read
Asian Americans' Unrequited Love of Harvard
Asian-Americans don’t necessarily think of themselves as “victims” of Harvard’s racist policies. They’re more concerned with the idea of merit—they want their admission to be judged on their resume of accomplishments, not their race.
Kenny Xu
· 13 min read
Linda Gottfredson's Scientific Keynote Was Cancelled — Why?
A profound discomfort with empirical findings emerging from intelligence research lies at the heart of the disinvitation.
Rosalind Arden
· 5 min read
Do Advocacy Groups Belong in Academia?
Science seeks to explain the world, but explanation conflicts with condemnation, which is an important component of injustice and in turn advocacy.
Uri Harris
· 11 min read