The Troubled State of Sociology
Increasingly, sociologists are expected to avoid research questions and theories that involve the role of culture in shaping societal inequalities.
Ashley Rubin
· 15 min read
Higher Education
A collection of 87 posts
Institutional Failures in the Garden of Great Intellects
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.
Rosalind Arden
· 11 min read
Cambridge and the Stigmatisation of Intelligence Research
Nathan Cofnas joins a historical line of academics demonised for delivering unwelcome or upsetting news about group differences.
Richard J. Haier
· 6 min read
Show Us the Prompts
How AI prose exploits the charity that makes reading possible.
Maarten Boudry
· 9 min read
The Tip of the Iceberg
The Jason Arday fiasco is a reminder why academia has developed a reputation for cowardice, careerism, and conformism in recent years.
Andrew Hammel
· 7 min read
What Is the Point of Anthropology?
How a discipline lost interest in the people it was founded to understand.
Robert Lynch
· 11 min read
Politicising the Humanities: Sociology as Case Study
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’
Quillette
· 27 min read
A Crisis in the Humanities
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.
Paul Boghossian
· 23 min read
The Crisis in the Humanities Is Not About Money
Critical theory did not merely politicise scholarship. It made scholarship easier to produce.
Abraham Wyner
· 12 min read
The Miseducation of American Journalists
Understanding what has gone wrong with journalism in the US requires an understanding of what has gone wrong with the country’s journalism schools.
Steve Salerno
· 16 min read
An Ivy League University Looks Inward
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.
Quillette
· 4 min read
The Professor and the Pariah
How a brilliant mind fell for bad history and worse people.
Michael Cohen
· 7 min read
Addressing the Academic Skew
Higher education needs intellectual—not political—conservatives.
Jesse Smith
· 6 min read
Francesca Albanese and the Perversion of Academia
Three Flemish universities are about to convey the sanction of university-recognised expertise to a deeply dishonest and fraudulent individual.
Norman J.W. Goda
· 12 min read
Criminal Research
European jurists should not seek to arbitrate controversial matters best settled by science.
Rosalind Arden
· 14 min read