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The Trump administration is proposing to end support for some of the cutting-edge scientific research that is crucial to America's economic prosperity and military security.
The reason most teaching is bad is that most teaching follows a demonstrably bad model.
The Chinese student has become the face of Western academia’s Chinese corruption problem, but her critics are missing something more important.
Harvard professor Steven Pinker tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why Donald Trump’s campaign against his university’s ‘woke’ policies goes too far.
The discipline of English literature seems unlikely to survive the coming technological tsunami—and maybe it doesn’t deserve to. And I say this as a professor of English, who believes in the power of the written word.
The Trump administration’s decision to start revoking the visas of international students is vindictive, petty, and counterproductive.
Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests.
Even those of us who sounded alarms before the November election underestimated just how unhinged the second Trump presidency would turn out to be.
Instead of building the broadest possible coalition for his cause, Rufo is busy making enemies of potential allies.
A scholarly journal published pro-Palestinian activism dressed as dispassionate media analysis—and then refused to retract the paper after its shoddy methodology was pointed out.
The cure may be worse than the disease.
In a recent speech delivered at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, a Quillette editor describes lessons he learned while investigating the school’s teachers college.
How the battle for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was fought, won, and nearly lost again.
The American Association of University Professors once defended heterodox thinkers. It now supports mandatory DEI statements and calls rival organisations right-wing stooges.
Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down.