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
Education
A collection of 398 posts
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
What’s Wrong with the American Academy
A colleague of mine in the economics department once said, “when the price of bullshit is zero, demand is inelastic.
Jonathan Anomaly
· 6 min read
Bryan Caplan's 'The Case Against Education' — 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
· 9 min read
Silence Around Test Scores Serves the Privileged
It’s 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
· 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
· 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
· 9 min read
A Liberal’s Case for Conservatives in History Departments
The liberal-to-leftist makeup of the discipline significantly influences the questions historians ask, the answers that we privilege, and the ways we teach and engage with the public.
Joseph Stieb
· 6 min read
‘Indigenous Ways of Knowing’: Magical Thinking and Spirituality by Any One Name
The idea of bringing traditional ways of knowing together with empirical data and science is important.
Josh Dehaas
· 7 min read
Postmodernism and the Decline of the Liberal Arts
Postmodernism is devouring the liberal arts. Such a deeply entrenched cultural problem cannot be solved by top-down intervention.
Velvet Favretto
· 6 min read
The Student's Dilemma: Conformity or Education
Activism and ambition can conflict so that students must choose between writing what they think and getting the grades they want and need.
Avel Ivanov
· 4 min read
Is There Room in Diversity For White People?
If it is permissible to link whiteness and depravity, why is it not permissible to link blackness and criminality?
Steve Salerno
· 5 min read
The Illiberal Logic of Intersectionality
The claim that intersectionality can be fully separated from radicalism and opposition to free speech remains unconvincing.
Christian Alejandro Gonzalez
· 10 min read
The Commodification of Learning and the Decline of the Humanities
We also have our separate ‘facts,’ often the result of what different media outlets consider newsworthy.”
Julian Vigo
· 10 min read