In Defence of Jiang Yurong
The Chinese student has become the face of Western academia’s Chinese corruption problem, but her critics are missing something more important.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
Higher Education
A collection of 62 posts
The Problem With ‘Harvard Derangement Syndrome’
Harvard professor Steven Pinker tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why Donald Trump’s campaign against his university’s ‘woke’ policies goes too far.
Jonathan Kay, Steven Pinker
· 19 min read
AI and the Death of Literary Criticism
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.
Thomas P. Balazs
· 8 min read
Student Scapegoats
The Trump administration’s decision to start revoking the visas of international students is vindictive, petty, and counterproductive.
Carl Skutsch
· 8 min read
Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Founding Principles?
Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests.
Ellie Avishai
· 15 min read
One Hundred Days of Ineptitude
Even those of us who sounded alarms before the November election underestimated just how unhinged the second Trump presidency would turn out to be.
Cathy Young
· 13 min read
Christopher Rufo’s Pyrrhic Victory
Instead of building the broadest possible coalition for his cause, Rufo is busy making enemies of potential allies.
Matt Johnson
· 20 min read
Spurious Research as Tendentious Propaganda
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.
Oliver Kamm
· 12 min read
Trump Versus Harvard
The cure may be worse than the disease.
Andrew Gleeson
· 16 min read
When Good Academics Do Bad Things
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.
Jonathan Kay
· 17 min read
The Fight for Academic Freedom in the UK
How the battle for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was fought, won, and nearly lost again.
Abhishek Saha
· 34 min read
An Unsettling Approach to Academic Freedom
The American Association of University Professors once defended heterodox thinkers. It now supports mandatory DEI statements and calls rival organisations right-wing stooges.
Andy Lamey
· 28 min read
Universities Are Worth Saving
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.
Jonathan Rauch
· 14 min read
Podcast #270: ‘The Politics of the Academy Have Been Defeated’
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale English professor-turned-essayist William Deresiewicz, who argues that Americans—many Democrats included—are fed up with campus-style progressive radicalism.
Quillette, William Deresiewicz
· 9 min read
The Decline and Fall of Katherine Franke
Anti-Zionist falsehoods, malicious absurdities, and self-serving martyrdom at Columbia.
Cary Nelson, Joe Lockard
· 12 min read