What Is Diversity? And Why Is It Valuable?
People differ from one another in many different ways.
Justin P. McBrayer
· 11 min read
Education
A collection of 395 posts
Can We Have Sex Back?
For a start, sex can be pretty delightful, and if you are a smart person (as many—though by no means all—academics are), you will likely find that sex with other smart people is much more satisfying than sex with the dumb.
Alice Dreger
· 6 min read
Male Underachievement and the Gender Turf Wars
The educational advancement of women is strange when viewed alongside the floundering of men.
Ari David Blaff
· 10 min read
Remedial Education for All
Over the past few decades, schools have embraced practices of inclusion (also known as mainstreaming) which prioritize keeping students with disabilities in regular classes as much as possible.
Brock Tillman
· 11 min read
As US Schools Prioritize Diversity Over Merit, China Is Becoming the World’s STEM Leader
In a 2018 report published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), China ranked first in mathematical proficiency among 15-year-olds, while the United States was in 25th place.
The Society of Cultural Anthropology’s Campaign to Present American Populism as Fascism
The January 6th riot does make for a visually dramatic backdrop to an exploration of the fascistic strain in modern populist politics.
Matthew Porter
· 8 min read
Should Critical Race Theory Be Banned in Public Schools?—a Conversation with Christopher F. Rufo
They’re embarking on an experiment that I think will ultimately fail and will ultimately harm children, but it’s an experiment that they’re entitled to embark on.
Jonathan Kay and Christopher F. Rufo
· 25 min read
Almost Four Decades After Its Birth, The Diversity Industry Thrives on Its Own Failures
The increasing power of college diversity bureaucrats over academic affairs since the 1990s has been stunning.
Heather Mac Donald
· 10 min read
Truth, Polarization, and the Nature of Our Beliefs
Like other Americans, I’m depressed by the growing level of political partisanship. There seem to be a lot more people with extreme beliefs yelling at us. The ends of the belief spectrum are engorged, the center hollowed out. It’s frequently alleged that extremists don’t care about truth,
Howard Darmstadter
· 13 min read
As a Gay Child in a Christian Cult, I Was Taught to Hate Myself. Then I Joined the Church of Social Justice—and Nothing Changed
I grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, in a fundamentalist Christian community called The Lamb of God. What began in the mid-1970s as a small group of born-again hippies who played music, prayed together, and proselytized to whoever would listen about Jesus’s unconditional love and mercy, descended
Ben Appel
· 42 min read
How All My Politically Correct Bones Were Broken
In my first 10 years of college teaching, from the mid-60s to mid-70s, I modeled myself on my best teachers—men and women who questioned my ideas vigorously. They let me know that I mattered to them, they praised when praise was due, and they pushed me hard. Often I
Gregory Hansen
· 22 min read
Confusing Cure and Disease
But we must also strive to raise realistic, resilient children who are better prepared for life’s quotidian challenges.
Steve Salerno
· 6 min read
The Gathering Resistance to the Stigmatisation of Masculinity
There is now a growing international movement of men and women dedicated to resisting the anti-masculinity narrative.
Hannah Gal
· 8 min read
Education and Masculinity—An Interview with Will Knowland
The right to free speech includes speech that might offend, shock, or disturb. And it includes not only the right to express such speech but also the right to receive it.
Hannah Gal
· 8 min read
What's Wrong With the New Australian Curriculum?
In education, we have lots of wars. There are the math wars, the reading wars, and the ongoing culture wars. What is less common is for all of these wars to ignite at once along with the declaration of a new war or two, just for the heck of it.
Greg Ashman
· 7 min read