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 25 Mar 2021 · 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 15 Mar 2021 · 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 12 Mar 2021 · 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 6 Mar 2021 · 17 min read
Decolonising Math is Rooted in a Decades-Old Conflict The central point of contention seems to be between math’s claim to universal truth and the kind of subjective, lived-experience approach embraced by many social justice movements. Greg Ashman 4 Mar 2021 · 7 min read
Against Dilettantes The reason these books endure and will be read long after the writers of littérature engagée harping on a string of fashionable social trends are ridiculed and forgotten, is their aesthetic impact. Elena Shalneva 4 Mar 2021 · 9 min read
The Podcaster Who (Single-handledly) Made Me Love History A huge part of Duncan’s appeal is his humble, layman’s approach. Jonathan Kay 1 Mar 2021 · 8 min read
The Problem With ‘Indigenizing the University’ Everyone, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, is free to explore their own spiritual beliefs, of course. But the university is not the place for such exercises. Frances Widdowson 24 Feb 2021 · 13 min read
Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking It is not hopeless. A recent analysis of research on college graduates suggested that attending college appreciably increased their critical thinking capacity. Greg Ashman 20 Feb 2021 · 6 min read
The Attack on Timothy Jackson Is an Assault on Liberal Education The only way students can resist this commodification of their identities is by occupying an unsafe space—getting an education that will encourage them to escape what they think they already are. Bruno Chaouat 9 Feb 2021 · 8 min read
A (Failed) Campaign to Smear a University of Toronto Scholarship Student as a Bigot The problem, he notes is that there is always going to be a required balance between our trusting inclination of accusations from an apparent victim, and everyone’s inviolable right of due process. Michael Humeniuk 8 Feb 2021 · 12 min read
Sexual Assault and the Taboo of Sound Advice Yes, your car might be stolen even if you lock it and take the keys, but does that mean that no one should remind us to lock our cars and take our keys? Steve Salerno 7 Feb 2021 · 6 min read
‘More Weight’: An Academic’s Guide to Surviving Campus Witch Hunts When you are being targeted by aggression, hostility, and hatred, a natural impulse is to want to fight back as hard as possible, and exact revenge. Dorian S. Abbot 5 Feb 2021 · 8 min read
Why Is Biden Trying to Punish Charter Schools for Their Success? Charter schools are publicly funded institutions that charge no fees and have more flexibility than regular government schools in how they manage their affairs and run their programs. Greg Ashman 29 Jan 2021 · 7 min read
The Value of Knowledge When we value skills over knowledge, we get doctors who can’t name a supreme court justice. Daniel Buck 22 Jan 2021 · 10 min read
