A collection of 75 posts
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.
The Trump administration’s decision to start revoking the visas of international students is vindictive, petty, and counterproductive.
Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests.
Even those of us who sounded alarms before the November election underestimated just how unhinged the second Trump presidency would turn out to be.
Instead of building the broadest possible coalition for his cause, Rufo is busy making enemies of potential allies.
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.
The cure may be worse than the disease.
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.
How the battle for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was fought, won, and nearly lost again.
The American Association of University Professors once defended heterodox thinkers. It now supports mandatory DEI statements and calls rival organisations right-wing stooges.
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.
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.
Anti-Zionist falsehoods, malicious absurdities, and self-serving martyrdom at Columbia.
If the American Historical Association formally adopts a resolution accusing Israel of “scholasticide,” it could destroy the organisation’s reputation for serious scholarship.
Universities should operate for the benefit of students and society-at-large—not the well-paid administrators and senior academics who serve as their gatekeepers.