Peer Review as Shadow Cancelling
If you think academics can avoid abuses by keeping out of politics, think again.
Bruce Oliver Newsome
· 10 min read
Education
A collection of 389 posts
Exactly the Education I Needed
In praise of combative and cantankerous instruction.
Stephen Akey
· 11 min read
Amy Wax and Academic Freedom
The investigation into the polarizing law professor violates the most basic tenets of academic freedom.
Steven Grant
· 14 min read
Aristotle (and the Stoics): An Interview with John Sellars
A new book by John Sellars explores the life’s work and extraordinary legacy of the man he has provocatively called “the single most important human being ever to have lived.”
Riley Moore
· 20 min read
The Approaching Disintegration of Academia
Universities cannot withstand the assault on objective truth.
Mark Goldblatt
· 7 min read
Colonialism and Its Discontents
Oxford ethicist Nigel Biggar’s controversial reassessment of Britain’s imperial record has reignited an important academic quarrel over the meaning and legacy of empire.
John Lloyd
· 16 min read
What Progressive Educators Get Wrong About Creativity
Originality requires both knowledge and technical mastery.
Daniel Buck
· 11 min read
The Educational Ship Comes to a Shuddering Halt
School closings put strain on families and students alike.
Jenny Griebenow
· 11 min read
Critical Thinking, Reverential Thinking, and Lashing Out
Before we challenge conventions, we must understand and master them.
Alexander Zubatov
· 8 min read
And Yet it May (Or May Not) Move
If we allow ideological campaigns to discourage controversial research, we will be making a terrible mistake.
Bryan J. Pesta
· 21 min read
Ignoring the Evidence
The University of California has decided to drop college admissions tests—that is a bad idea.
Robert J. Morris
· 6 min read
At Canadian Universities, Race and Gender Quotas Have Become a Way of Life
In their recruitment efforts, some schools now flat-out exclude white males who don’t self-identify as disabled or LGBT.
Margaret Wente
· 11 min read
Co-Opting Toronto’s Public Education System in the Name of Social Justice Activism
Why Canada’s largest school board is seeking to administer an ideologically skewed census to its students.
Ian Cooper
· 14 min read
Bloated College Administration Is Making Education Unaffordable
Our campuses are stuffed with non-academic office workers. If elected to Harvard’s Board of Overseers, I‘ll propose firing most of them.
Harvey Silverglate
· 4 min read
Anti-Male Bias at the NHMRC
Imposing gender quotas for research funding is counterproductive and sets a dangerous new precedent.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 5 min read