Education - Quillette (Page 2)

Introducing ‘The Nations of Canada’

The project that (finally) got me hooked on Canadian history.

Jonathan Kay

7 Apr 2023 · 8 min read

Beijing’s Campus Offensive

Chinese-supported student groups in the West are being used to control discussion about China, censor critics, and lead protests against invited speakers

Joshua Kurlantzick

6 Apr 2023 · 5 min read

The Stanford Rape Hoax

Jennifer Gries used claims of rape to punish a co-worker. Activists at Stanford used her lies for their own purposes.

Lona Manning

3 Apr 2023 · 20 min read

Dismantle DEI Ideology

The disgraceful scenes at Stanford are a flawless embodiment of how diversity doctrine distorts academic life and constrains decision-making.

Heather Mac Donald

26 Mar 2023 · 15 min read

Professional Sedation

Tenure is allowing humanities scholars to write and teach our profession into well-earned irrelevance.

Robert Zaretsky

23 Mar 2023 · 6 min read

Peer Review as Shadow Cancelling

If you think academics can avoid abuses by keeping out of politics, think again.

Bruce Oliver Newsome

21 Mar 2023 · 9 min read

Exactly the Education I Needed

In praise of combative and cantankerous instruction.

Stephen Akey

17 Mar 2023 · 11 min read

Amy Wax speaks at The Center for Immigration Studies in 2016. YouTube.

Amy Wax and Academic Freedom

The investigation into the polarizing law professor violates the most basic tenets of academic freedom.

Steven Grant

6 Mar 2023 · 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

19 Feb 2023 · 19 min read

The Approaching Disintegration of Academia

Universities cannot withstand the assault on objective truth.

Mark Goldblatt

7 Feb 2023 · 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.