A collection of 50 posts
Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale English professor-turned-essayist William Deresiewicz, who argues that Americans—many Democrats included—are fed up with campus-style progressive radicalism.
Anti-Zionist falsehoods, malicious absurdities, and self-serving martyrdom at Columbia.
If the American Historical Association formally adopts a resolution accusing Israel of “scholasticide,” it could destroy the organisation’s reputation for serious scholarship.
Universities should operate for the benefit of students and society-at-large—not the well-paid administrators and senior academics who serve as their gatekeepers.
It is always the lecturer’s responsibility to ensure that students know that they can speak freely.
University of Western Ontario instructors spent months denouncing an outspoken education student who’d asked awkward questions about Indigenous reconciliation—until a UWO tribunal concluded they’d violated her rights.
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.
Grant applications should be assessed on their scientific merits—not on the sex or political leanings of the applicant.
A tenured scholar has paid a high price for bluntly expressing uncomfortable truths.
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.’
Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism.
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.’
A team of researchers is analysing what factors lead American university administrators to embrace illiberal ideological trends.
The current system is not only economically counterproductive but incentivises people to become illegal immigrants.