Going South: Life at the World’s Most Progressive University
Activists have discovered that the best form of defence is attack.
David Benatar
· 8 min read
Education
A collection of 398 posts
The Fight Over What Children Learn
The model of life they imagine is based on the myth of an all-purpose education designed by experts to allow every child to choose any future they like.
Moshe Krakowski
· 7 min read
The Importance of Academic Impartiality
In November 1933, as rector of Freiburg University, Martin Heidegger published a letter urging students to vote “yes” in support of Hitler’s decision to leave the League of Nations. “German men and women!” Heidegger wrote, “The Führer is asking nothing from the people. Rather, he is giving the people
Matt Beard
· 8 min read
Against Land Acknowledgements
What would happen if everyone took the time to write what they actually believe about land ownership and historical moral responsibility, instead of simply repeating a mantra they have been handed by a DEI bureaucrat?
Stuart Reges
· 8 min read
The Pretext of Diversity in American Universities
A surfeit of reparations advocates (including Ta-Nehisi Coates) are openly disdainful of the diversity rationale—just not so disdainful as to actually oppose diversity initiatives.
Kenneth R. Pike
· 12 min read
The Land Where Angela Davis Is Queen
I have watched the culture here slowly change—the troubling values I fled so far from followed me like a sort of reverse Manifest Destiny.
Meghann McCracken
· 24 min read
Academic Ideologues Are Corrupting STEM. The Silent Liberal Majority Must Fight Back
We need to break the spell of illiberal ideology, and come back to our collective senses—to stop self-censoring in fear of the mob and excusing nonsense in the name of political allyship, and to start defending the values of pluralism, humanism, and democracy.
Anna Krylov and Jay Tanzman
· 10 min read
The Aristocracy of Talent—A Review
Wooldridge argues that meritocracy can only survive if it is infused with an ethos that prioritizes virtue, applying talent to ends that ennoble rather than enrich.
Razib Khan
· 12 min read
‘We Never Looked Back’
Education was divided along confessional lines into Catholic and Protestant school systems; for these purposes, Jews were designated Protestant.
Ruth R. Wisse
· 15 min read
Scapegoating the Private School Boy
The Private School Boy is an object of endless horror and fascination. Every few years, the media outrage cycle will crest towards another scandal—a leaked video of a sexist chant, allegations of sexual misconduct or orgiastic excess—and the discourse machine will dissect the sexual mores of elite teenagers
Kasumi Borczyk
· 7 min read
The Push for Equity in Education Hurts Vulnerable Children the Most
Implementation of newly popular equity policies will hinder the learning of many students before those policies are weakened or reversed.
Russell T. Warne
· 13 min read
The Rittenhouse Trial: A Legal Scholar Responds
Our society cannot and will not survive a polity that permits armed children to walk the streets and kill with impunity.
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.
· 16 min read
Affirmative Action Conundrums
People of goodwill tie themselves into the most absurd intellectual knots as they attempt to discuss affirmative action without acknowledging its inherent unpleasantness.
Oliver Traldi
· 11 min read
Academia’s Identity Crisis
Two months into my first semester as a doctoral student, Donald Trump was elected. A few years later the coronavirus hit. That summer George Floyd was murdered. Each of these events, along with many less seismic ones in between, elicited a similar response from the faculty, students, and administrators around
Samuel Freel
· 6 min read
The Demoralization of the American Teacher
One of the biggest challenges for teachers in their quest to give good grades is that test grades tend to be very low.
Shane Trotter
· 12 min read