Lessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free Speech and ‘Decolonization’ University of Western Ontario instructors spent months denouncing an outspoken education student who’d asked awkward questions about Indigenous reconciliation—until a UWO tribunal concluded they’d violated her rights. Jonathan Kay 29 Nov 2024 · 24 min read
Trump and the Academic Cocoon A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention. Heather Mac Donald 28 Nov 2024 · 12 min read
Reverse Sexism in Australian Research Grant applications should be assessed on their scientific merits—not on the sex or political leanings of the applicant. Andrew Glover 11 Oct 2024 · 6 min read
The Amy Wax Affair A tenured scholar has paid a high price for bluntly expressing uncomfortable truths. Charles Murray 2 Oct 2024 · 7 min read
Podcast #251: Tracing the Rise of Radicalised Anti-Zionism on American Campuses Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author Paul Berman about the lingering influence of ‘Black Power’ advocate Stokely Carmichael, who once infamously claimed that ‘the only good Zionist is a dead Zionist.’ Jonathan Kay 16 Sep 2024 · 29 min read
A Stupid Cartoon and the University Ideology Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism. Paul Berman 9 Sep 2024 · 41 min read
Podcast #249: The (Other) Scandal at Oberlin College Jonathan Kay speaks with Roya Hakakian about the rise and fall of Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, a former Iranian official who’d presented himself to Oberlin as an agent of peace and ‘forgiveness.’ Quillette 29 Aug 2024 · 23 min read
Preventing the Next Wave of Progressive Radicalism—Before It Arrives A team of researchers is analysing what factors lead American university administrators to embrace illiberal ideological trends. Nathanial Bork / Robert Maranto / Martha Bradley Dorsey 26 Aug 2024 · 9 min read
The Case for a Merit-Based Immigration System The current system is not only economically counterproductive but incentivises people to become illegal immigrants. Jay Sophalkalyan 23 Aug 2024 · 10 min read
The Professor, His Nemesis, and a Scandal at Oberlin The story of how a liberal college promoted and defended an Iranian Islamist and betrayed its own values. Roya Hakakian 8 Aug 2024 · 31 min read
The Choice Should Jewish students accept the mantle of a marginalised group or reject DEI ideology altogether? David B Rush 18 Jun 2024 · 13 min read
Defending Academic Freedom in Higher Education and Medicine The success of the academy requires academic freedom and tolerance for viewpoint diversity. These critical values are under increasing threat. Jeffrey S. Flier 25 Apr 2024 · 12 min read
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 · 15 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 · 24 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
