The Pseudoscience of Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory is not a hard science. It’s not even a soft science.
Julian Adorney
· 10 min read
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Podcast # 218: McMaster’s Imaginary Sex Ring: Uncovering Administrators’ Role in Inflaming a Campus Social Panic
Listen onSpotify Lawrence Krauss, host of The Origins Podcast, interviews Jonathan Kay about his Quillette investigation into the spread of false rape allegations on a Canadian university campus in 2020—and the lessons that can be learned.
Quillette
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After College
The coming cultural collapse of American higher education.
Peter Wood
· 12 min read
In Canada, Asking for Evidence Now Counts as ‘Denialism’
Sensational 2021 claims that unmarked Indigenous child graves had been discovered in British Columbia now seem doubtful. But saying so may soon be a criminal offence
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
The First Stone
Philip Schofield and his critics could both learn a lot from Oscar Wilde’s prison memoir.
Andrew Gleeson
· 10 min read
America Doesn’t Need Regime Change
Patrick Deneen has written a book that reproduces and encourages a form of self-deception that’s pervasive in the United States on the populist Right.
Damon Linker
· 16 min read
The Real Cost of Cheap Labour
Michael Lind's 'Hell to Pay' presents a dire cautionary message to the political establishment.
Sohale Mortazavi
· 9 min read
Left is Not Woke: An Interview with Susan Neiman
In undermining universalism and moral progress, "wokeism" is inherently reactionary.
Maarten Boudry
· 14 min read
Campus Puritans Come for an Astronomer—And His Byline
By demanding that morality tests be imposed on scientific journal authorship, Geoff Marcy’s critics are creating a dangerous precedent.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 13 min read
The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part II: The Legal and Media Circus
Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution.
Andrew Hammel
· 53 min read
The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part I: A Straightforward Murder Case
A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict.
Andrew Hammel
· 46 min read
Why Did Harvard University Go After One of Its Best Black Professors?
Roland Fryer Jr.’s life is a movie script: A man abandoned by his mom and raised by an alcoholic dad became the youngest black professor to ever secure tenure at Harvard University. After ascending to the academic elite, Fryer didn’t resign himself to irrelevant technical puzzles; he put
Rob Montz
· 10 min read
The Push for Equity in Education Hurts Vulnerable Children the Most
Implementation of newly popular equity policies will hinder the learning of many students before those policies are weakened or reversed.
Russell T. Warne
· 13 min read