A collection of 89 posts
A new report on the Canada Research Chairs program analyses the reduced standards applied to scholars belonging to ‘equity groups.’
English departments are increasingly ignoring the great works of the past, in favour of popular literary works that reflect activist themes and nonliterary works of political and social theory.
Increasingly, sociologists are expected to avoid research questions and theories that involve the role of culture in shaping societal inequalities.
The Cofnas and Arday controversies show that on matters of race, administrators at Cambridge have failed to conduct deliberate checks, failed in probity, and failed in their tolerance for unsettled science.
Nathan Cofnas joins a historical line of academics demonised for delivering unwelcome or upsetting news about group differences.
How AI prose exploits the charity that makes reading possible.
The Jason Arday fiasco is a reminder why academia has developed a reputation for cowardice, careerism, and conformism in recent years.
How a discipline lost interest in the people it was founded to understand.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Hawaii professor Ashley Rubin, co-author of the recently published ‘Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences’
The norms governing scholarship now often serve to protect a rigid orthodoxy on certain politically charged issues—with ideological tests substituted for proper academic standards.
Critical theory did not merely politicise scholarship. It made scholarship easier to produce.
Understanding what has gone wrong with journalism in the US requires an understanding of what has gone wrong with the country’s journalism schools.
Podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale Law School professor Sarath Sanga, co-author of a new report explaining why the American public is losing trust in the country’s colleges and universities.
How a brilliant mind fell for bad history and worse people.
Higher education needs intellectual—not political—conservatives.