The Decline and Fall of Katherine Franke
Anti-Zionist falsehoods, malicious absurdities, and self-serving martyrdom at Columbia.
Cary Nelson
· 12 min read
Education
A collection of 389 posts
Agitprop at the AHA
If the American Historical Association formally adopts a resolution accusing Israel of “scholasticide,” it could destroy the organisation’s reputation for serious scholarship.
Jeffrey Herf
· 15 min read
Trump and the Academic Cocoon
A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention.
Heather Mac Donald
· 12 min read
Democrats Must Pick Fights with Woke Activists
Ignoring the far-left’s identitarian agenda is not enough.
Richard Hanania
· 5 min read
The Amy Wax Affair
A tenured scholar has paid a high price for bluntly expressing uncomfortable truths.
Charles Murray
· 7 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
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
Totems and Taboos
A cancelled academic has produced a fine new book about the threat posed by progressive pieties.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
When Anti-Racism Training Becomes ‘Vexatious’ Abuse
On the anniversary of Richard Bilkszto’s suicide, a Quillette investigation explores how Ontario’s public school system was radicalised by ‘equity thought leaders’ such as Kike Ojo-Thompson.
Ari David Blaff
· 32 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
The Real Problem with Plagiarism
Students who profess to care about justice but not about the truth will end up with neither.
Ben Bayer
· 8 min read
Springtime for Sinwar
Notes on the pro-Hamas Left and its antecedents.
Jeffrey Herf
· 21 min read
Academia Versus Civilization
The antisemitism of campus leftism may be incidental. The barbarism is the point.
Tal Fortgang
· 16 min read
The Odyssey of Classical Education
Classical education instills precisely the skills and habits most sorely needed in society today.
Robert C. Thornett
· 8 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