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Investigating the Academy

In a recent speech to University of Toronto scholars, a Quillette editor explained why many of his fellow journalists are reluctant to report on administrative scandals at Canadian universities.

Jonathan Kay

19 Apr 2024 · 14 min read

The UC’s Corner-Office Revolutionary

In a new memoir, a former academic administrator explains how she led the ideological campaign to enshrine DEI as a ‘core mission’ at the University of California.

Steven Brint

9 Apr 2024 · 23 min read

Academia Versus Civilization

The antisemitism of campus leftism may be incidental. The barbarism is the point.

Tal Fortgang / Jonathan Deluty

25 Mar 2024 · 16 min read

Intersectionality’s Cosmic Inquisitor

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has made a name for herself as one of STEM’s most implacable activists. Now the targets of her online attacks are fighting back

Jonathan Kay

15 Feb 2024 · 35 min read

Concordia University 'Decolonises' Engineering

This will mark out the university as a place to avoid if you’re hoping for a serious education.

Lawrence M. Krauss

6 Feb 2024 · 5 min read

Looking Back on a Decade of Cancel Culture

A new book traces the rising threat to free speech on American campuses—and explains how students, teachers, administrators, and parents can become part of the solution.

Greg Lukianoff / Rikki Schlott

23 Jan 2024 · 10 min read

Claudine Gay’s Misguided Defenders

Damning facts shouldn’t be ignored just because they’re brought to light by the ‘wrong’ kind of person

The Quillette Editorial Board

7 Jan 2024 · 10 min read

The Harvard Double Standard

And how higher education can reform from within.

Jeffrey S. Flier

23 Dec 2023 · 11 min read

Australian Universities Have a Viewpoint Diversity Problem: Quillette Cetera Episode 24

A conversation with heterodox sociologist Andrew Glover.

Zoe Booth

7 Dec 2023 · 1 min read

The Sex of Skeletons

To suggest that a spirited discussion of the importance of sex and gender in archeology threatens “scientific integrity” is to misunderstand the nature of science.

Lawrence M. Krauss

11 Oct 2023 · 7 min read

Academia’s Missing Men

Men are disappearing from science and academia. The public perception is, however, exactly the opposite.

Lawrence M. Krauss

11 Sep 2023 · 9 min read

The Peculiar Silence in the Students for Fair Admissions Decision

Are racial preferences in university admissions really dead?

Ethan Blevins

16 Aug 2023 · 7 min read

After College

The coming cultural collapse of American higher education.

Peter Wood

21 Jun 2023 · 12 min read

Lessons from an Academic Social Panic

Following on an investigative report detailing McMaster University’s mishandling of false sex-ring accusations in 2020, here are four lessons to help prevent a recurrence

Jonathan Kay

18 Jun 2023 · 10 min read

Dismantle DEI Ideology

The disgraceful scenes at Stanford are a flawless embodiment of how diversity doctrine distorts academic life and constrains decision-making.

Heather Mac Donald

26 Mar 2023 · 15 min read