A collection of 80 posts
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.
Critical theory did not merely politicise scholarship. It made scholarship easier to produce.
Understanding what has gone wrong with journalism in the US requires an understanding of what has gone wrong with the country’s journalism schools.
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.
How a brilliant mind fell for bad history and worse people.
Higher education needs intellectual—not political—conservatives.
Three Flemish universities are about to convey the sanction of university-recognised expertise to a deeply dishonest and fraudulent individual.
European jurists should not seek to arbitrate controversial matters best settled by science.
Either universities appoint and promote professors who display and disseminate intellectual virtues, or they reward those who exemplify and cultivate intellectual vices.
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.
Press-led hysteria and institutional cowardice are inflicting needless damage on higher education.
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.
Why artists, academics and others should not exploit the presence of a captive audience.
Academic freedom is most vital when contested work is controversial or liable to cause offence.
Edinburgh University’s recently published Review on racism falsifies history and catastrophises about the present, implying that attitudes towards race have changed little since the university was founded in 1583.