A Liberalâs 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 26 May 2018 · 6 min read
âIndigenous Ways of Knowingâ: 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 22 May 2018 · 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 21 May 2018 · 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 15 May 2018 · 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 10 May 2018 · 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 8 May 2018 · 10 min read
The Commodification of Learning and the Decline of the Humanities We also have our separate âfacts,â often the result of what different media outlets consider newsworthy.â Julian Vigo 3 May 2018 · 10 min read
The Return of the Canon Wars By refighting the Canon Wars, there is hope that we can chart a more productive course than the one we have inherited. Katherine Kelaidis 26 Apr 2018 · 7 min read
The Incentives for Groupthink What is groupthink? It is the powerful mechanism through which groups reinforce. Neema Parvini 22 Apr 2018 · 12 min read
Who Will the Evergreen Mob Target Next? An Evergreen professor of biology, Bret Weinstein, wrote an email in which he expressed opposition to the idea that self-segregation was a useful exercise. Debra Soh 20 Apr 2018 · 6 min read
The Stifling Uniformity of Literary Theory Many universities and colleges currently advertise literary theory courses which purport to introduce students to a range of different approaches to literary texts. Neema Parvini 15 Apr 2018 · 11 min read
Training the Masculinity Out of Children Research also suggests1 that âmetrosexualâ men can be understood as those engaging in a sophisticated dynamic of traditionally masculine characteristics. Elio Martino 12 Apr 2018 · 7 min read
How the Science Wars Ruined the Mother of Anthropology Both revered and despised for the image of humanity she presented to the world, and for her conclusions about the Samoan people, in particular. Matthew Blackwell 11 Apr 2018 · 17 min read
Academia's Consilience Crisis Consilience makes the case for epistemological inter-relation, put into practice by the congregation of diverse fields of inquiry. Phil Theofanos 8 Apr 2018 · 9 min read
Lost Down Social Constructionism's Epistemic Rabbit-Hole Where they have raised both eyebrows and tempers among social constructionismâs growing number of critics. KĂ„re Fog 6 Apr 2018 · 11 min read
