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
Left or Right, Politicians Shouldn’t Be Telling Academics What They’re Allowed to Teach The campaign to ban Critical Race Theory and other ‘woke’ dogmas channels the same illiberal spirit that conservatives claim to oppose. Michael Shermer 21 Feb 2023 · 6 min read
Stuck in the Middle (of Academia) Academia is a mess, but there is still hope. Christopher J. Ferguson 1 Jan 2023 · 11 min read
At Canadian Universities, Race and Gender Quotas Have Become a Way of Life In their recruitment efforts, some schools now flat-out exclude white males who don’t self-identify as disabled or LGBT. Margaret Wente 2 Dec 2022 · 10 min read
Bloated College Administration Is Making Education Unaffordable Our campuses are stuffed with non-academic office workers. If elected to Harvard’s Board of Overseers, I‘ll propose firing most of them. Harvey Silverglate 2 Nov 2022 · 3 min read
Institutional Self-Renunciation Is Making Us Lonely Human identity is inextricably tied to group affiliation. So what happens when all the groups we know and love become ‘problematic’? N. Russell 16 Aug 2022 · 5 min read
Why Did Harvard University Go After One of Its Best Black Professors? Rob Montz 15 Apr 2022 · 9 min read
A Student Sleuth Found Evidence that Our University Practices Reverse Racism. Here’s Why I Advised Him Not to Publish It At the American university where I teach, one of my assigned tasks is to advise undergraduates—mostly freshmen and sophomores. This essay describes a conversation I had in 2017 with one of those advisees. I will call him Daniel. Daniel was a sophomore at the time. He had been an Keith David 17 Feb 2022 · 9 min read
As US Schools Prioritize Diversity Over Merit, China Is Becoming the World’s STEM Leader Percy Deift, Svetlana Jitomirskaya, and Sergiu Klainerman 19 Aug 2021 · 12 min read
Higher Education Risks No Longer Being Worth It – Here’s How to Change Course Christos A. Makridis 28 Dec 2020 · 4 min read
COVID-19 Has Exposed Critical Weaknesses in Global Higher Education Christos A. Makridis and Soula Parassidis 29 May 2020 · 5 min read
PODCAST 52: Yale Law School Professor Anthony Kronman on the Crisis in American Higher Education Quillette 5 Sep 2019 ·
