To Save Science, Slash the Number of PhDs
What does the education of a scientist involve? Innovation, trailblazing—a chance to join the ranks of other visionaries intent on breaking barriers? It’s an enticing image. A look at how… View Post...
View ArticleCatechism Class at British Universities
In the Roman Catholic church, children are required to attend catechism class in order to learn their religion’s key dogmas, as a prerequisite for confirmation and First Communion. Likewise, in… View...
View ArticleTwo Cheers for the University of Austin
Following the recent launch of the University of Austin, a new university that is to be “dedicated to the fearless pursuit of truth,” the responses have been mostly cheers from… View Post The post Two...
View ArticleSoft Coercion at the Woke University
Spectacular examples of cancel culture seem to happen weekly. Last month, the University of Michigan banished from the classroom one of its distinguished professors, Bright Sheng—a MacArthur Fellow and...
View ArticleUncancelling Academics: Can New Universities Save Higher Education?
New projects in higher education such as the University of Austin promise to counterbalance the notorious left-leaning political bias in academia. However, to have this kind of cultural impact, they…...
View ArticleThe Politics of Bones
Biological anthropologists (also historically called physical anthropologists) study the relationship between human biology, culture and behaviour: they may specialize in analysing the human body’s...
View ArticleIn Defence of Liberal Education: Roosevelt Montás’“Rescuing Socrates”
Roosevelt Montás is the author of a powerful new book called Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation, which is… View Post The post In Defence of...
View ArticleThe Curious Case of a Scholar Who Didn’t Exist
In 1988, Princeton admitted Alexi Indris-Santana into its class of 1992. An autodidact who herded cattle by day and taught himself philosophy by night, Santana was also a talented distance… View Post...
View ArticleDiversity Doubletalk
Almost every academic claims to value racial diversity, but few are willing to openly advocate preferring one colleague or student over another on the basis of race alone. We acknowledge… View Post The...
View ArticleMarxist Professors and Brainwashed Students: Charlie Kirk’s “The College Scam”
The irritable conservative college memoir, which argues that tertiary education is ruining the US, is a tired minor genre to which everyone from William F. Buckley Jr. to Dinesh D’Souza… View Post The...
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