What Is the Point of Anthropology?
How a discipline lost interest in the people it was founded to understand.
Robert Lynch
· 11 min read
Higher Education
A collection of 82 posts
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
Nine Intellectual Virtues
Either universities appoint and promote professors who display and disseminate intellectual virtues, or they reward those who exemplify and cultivate intellectual vices.
Nigel Biggar
· 6 min read
Silence on Sudan
In Sudan, a civil war involving Arab supremacists backed by the UAE has left as many as 400,000 dead and displaced twelve million. The silence on campus is deafening.
Steven Strauss
· 7 min read
The Price of the Epstein Frenzy
Press-led hysteria and institutional cowardice are inflicting needless damage on higher education.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 10 min read
Mobbed on Campus, Vindicated in Court
Four years after the University of Washington began investigating Stuart Reges for authoring a satirical ‘land acknowledgement,’ his First Amendment rights have been upheld by the Ninth Circuit.
Stuart Reges
· 12 min read
The Uninvited Sermon
Why artists, academics and others should not exploit the presence of a captive audience.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 8 min read