Identity and Conflicts of Interest
It is always the lecturer’s responsibility to ensure that students know that they can speak freely.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 10 min read
Higher Education
A collection of 60 posts
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
· 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
· 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
· 6 min read
The Amy Wax Affair
A tenured scholar has paid a high price for bluntly expressing uncomfortable truths.
Charles Murray
· 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
· 29 min read
A Stupid Cartoon and the University Ideology
Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism.
Paul Berman
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 31 min read
The Choice
Should Jewish students accept the mantle of a marginalised group or reject DEI ideology altogether?
David B Rush
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 24 min read