The Professor and the Pariah
How a brilliant mind fell for bad history and worse people.
Michael Cohen
· 7 min read
Higher Education
A collection of 91 posts
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
A Heretic Reprieved
Academic freedom is most vital when contested work is controversial or liable to cause offence.
Abhishek Saha
· 13 min read
A Haven for Racists?
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.
John Lloyd
· 12 min read
An Uproar Over Facts
Canadian experts reported accurate information about ‘gender-affirming’ therapies. Naturally, everyone is furious.
Jonathan Kay
· 14 min read
Trump’s War on Science
The Trump administration is proposing to end support for some of the cutting-edge scientific research that is crucial to America's economic prosperity and military security.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 5 min read
The Teaching Problem
The reason most teaching is bad is that most teaching follows a demonstrably bad model.
John Tagg
· 17 min read
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