A collection of 87 posts
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.
Canadian experts reported accurate information about ‘gender-affirming’ therapies. Naturally, everyone is furious.
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.
The reason most teaching is bad is that most teaching follows a demonstrably bad model.
The Chinese student has become the face of Western academia’s Chinese corruption problem, but her critics are missing something more important.
Harvard professor Steven Pinker tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why Donald Trump’s campaign against his university’s ‘woke’ policies goes too far.
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.