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
A collection of 398 posts
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
The Journal of Controversial Ideas Is Here
Minerva says that the frequency with which the journal will release issues isn’t yet known—it will depend on the rate at which the editors receive quality submissions.
Spencer Case
· 11 min read
Grade Inflation Is Ruining Education
Rampant grade inflation has made grades less useful while, ironically, making them the entire point of school.
Brock Tillman
· 8 min read
The Permanence of Segregation
Indeed, given existing levels of residential segregation on all continents—urban, suburban, and rural—it is also not practically possible (and almost always politically impossible) to redraw the lines that determine attendance in ways that would produce more integration.
Michael S. Merry
· 16 min read
Can You Teach Children to be Anti-Racist?
Just as we can teach children multiplication facts, we assume we can teach them the attitudes to the world that we want them to have.
Greg Ashman
· 6 min read
How Will Decolonizing the Curriculum Help the Poor and Dispossessed?
The path to progress is definitely not paved by destroying the epistemological framework bequeathed to us by the Enlightenment.
Samantha Jones
· 11 min read
Georgetown's Cultural Revolution
The ranks of this new ruling class are refreshed by immigrant academics who come to understand themselves in the way progressivism understands them: as minorities who can also act victim-like if they want—a precious endowment in the cultural academic market.
Lama Abu-Odeh
· 12 min read
Diversity, Inclusion, and Academic Freedom: The Case of Gender Biology
But it is sad to see established facts now suppressed along with undesirable beliefs and opinions. And to see our institutions of higher learning being led to this kind of neo-obscurantism in the name of enlightened social attitudes.
Constantin Polychronakos
· 9 min read
Weaponizing Social Justice to Protect School Administrators and Discredit Whistle-blowers: A Canadian Case Study
Two hours to the west of Montreal, the University of Ottawa is now in the midst of its own racism-free anti-racism social panic.
Jonathan Kay
· 18 min read
Culture, the Humanities, and the Collapse of the Grand Narratives
The socio-economic arguments are based on data indicating that the number of humanities graduates has declined rapidly since the financial crisis in 2008.
Sara Cederberg
· 10 min read
Britain's Academic Free Speech Bill
Interference by external actors comprises any attempt by those outside the academy to encroach upon the free speech rights of university members.
Noah Carl
· 13 min read
The Threat to Academic Freedom: From Anecdotes to Data
The moral community is now self-reproducing. It is also self-radicalising.
Eric Kaufmann
· 24 min read
How a Single Anonymous Twitter Account Caused an ‘Indigenized’ Canadian University to Unravel
The main beneficiaries are more likely to be privileged administrators who burnish their bona fides by filling alumni magazines and email blasts with Indigenous photo-ops.
Jonathan Kay
· 17 min read