Methods Behind the Campus Madness Then institutions of higher learning will again be a place for what they were originally meant, the exchange of ideas and verifiable knowledge. Sumantra Maitra 7 Mar 2017 · 7 min read
Sociology's Stagnation The curricula of sociology departments are so deeply flawed that they will need to be revised from the ground up. Brian Boutwell 5 Mar 2017 · 11 min read
Negotiating Standpoints Outside the University Classroom If universities made this negotiation route available to students as a matter of policy, campus activists won’t have to wave their signs and tread on the grass as their default action. Daniel Tippens 11 Feb 2017 · 6 min read
Make Expertise Great Again The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters is finally out this year. Sumantra Maitra 9 Feb 2017 · 7 min read
Stereotypes Can Hold Boys Back in School, Too These expectations can work both ways: When researchers told children that boys and girls would perform the same, boys’ academic performance improved. David Miller 6 Feb 2017 · 5 min read
Diversity for the Sake of Democracy Diversity is the celebration of individuality and nonconformity, and democracy is most precious when it allows three hundred million individuals to reach a compromise out of love for their country. Carrie Pritt 24 Jan 2017 · 4 min read
Tyranny of the Ethnography: How Lived Experience Corrupts the Social Sciences When books are routinely used as tools of indoctrination in the regime of liberal pedagogy, when will students ever hear the other side of the story? Toni Airaksinen 9 Jan 2017 · 6 min read
Monks in High Towers: A Plea to Our Fellow Academics We should remember that the creation of knowledge is generally a positive sum game. When practitioners in one field make progress and gain insight, all fields stand to benefit. Jonathan Anomaly / Brian Boutwell 6 Jan 2017 · 11 min read
Students, Sex, Social Media and Why the Steven Galloway Affair Is so Murky There’s a solution, but it’s not one that most feminists want to hear. Irene Ogrizek 6 Jan 2017 · 6 min read
The University as a Total Institution To all who value academic freedom, tolerance, and human dignity, weaponized diversity should be as abhorrent as the Total University it supports. John Paul Wright 2 Jan 2017 · 14 min read
In Praise of Ignorance To have a chance at solving our problems we must not condemn each other for openly stating our ignorance. Simon Cullen 25 Dec 2016 · 5 min read
Expansion is no Longer the Answer to Improving the Education System If the lessons of the past 50 years are to be learned, policymakers will need a much broader course of instruction than can be provided by human capital theory. Dean Ashenden 14 Dec 2016 · 5 min read
Why Colleges Should Stop Teaching “Toxic Masculinity” For every article published highlighting a case of students being taught this ideology, there are dozens of other instances that aren’t covered by the news. Toni Airaksinen 16 Nov 2016 · 4 min read
Time to Draw the Line in the Sand on Trigger Warnings The first thing to note in this context is that PTSD is extremely rare, even among trauma victims. Mark Fabian 12 Oct 2016 · 5 min read
Why Universities Should Get Rid of PowerPoint and Why They Won't Overreliance on slides has contributed to the absurd belief that expecting and requiring students to read books, attend classes, take notes and do homework is unreasonable. Paul Ralph 2 Sep 2016 · 4 min read
