The Amy Wax Affair
A tenured scholar has paid a high price for bluntly expressing uncomfortable truths.
Charles Murray
· 7 min read
Higher Education
A collection of 56 posts
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
Academia Versus Civilization
The antisemitism of campus leftism may be incidental. The barbarism is the point.
Tal Fortgang, Jonathan Deluty
· 16 min read
Intersectionality’s Cosmic Inquisitor
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has made a name for herself as one of STEM’s most implacable activists. Now the targets of her online attacks are fighting back
Jonathan Kay
· 36 min read
Concordia University 'Decolonises' Engineering
This will mark out the university as a place to avoid if you’re hoping for a serious education.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 6 min read
Looking Back on a Decade of Cancel Culture
A new book traces the rising threat to free speech on American campuses—and explains how students, teachers, administrators, and parents can become part of the solution.
Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott
· 10 min read