Education - Quillette (Page 8)

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

9 Apr 2021 · 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

5 Apr 2021 · 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

1 Apr 2021 · 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

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