The Cult of Diversity Shows Its True Face
…an anthropologist and social psychologist, not a political scientist. Jonathan Haidt, who founded Heterodox Academ, recognized this a few years ago, and he has nobly led the effort to reform…
…an anthropologist and social psychologist, not a political scientist. Jonathan Haidt, who founded Heterodox Academ, recognized this a few years ago, and he has nobly led the effort to reform…
…faith focused on a few leftist idols. Haidt founded the Heterodox Academy, a membership group open to all academics, as a counter-balance to leftist omphaloskepsis. But to maintain credibility with…
…that “[b]y 2006 … the ratio of Democrats to Republicans had climbed to more than 11:1.” The six authors, all from different universities and members of the Heterodox Academy, also…
…Academy “Open Mind” conference, where 25 of 28 speakers came from the liberal left to voice their complaints about the left’s suppression of free speech on campus. As Heterodox Academy…
his important study, The Anatomy of Antiliberalism, “Public disagreement is a creative force may have been the most novel and radical principle of liberal politics.” Chart: Courtesy of Heterodox Academy….
…in psychology) meaning that these figures most likely underestimate the current left-to-right ratio across the social sciences. In response to this problem, Haidt and others formed the Heterodox Academy website,…
…to be a generation of adults whose liberal arts educations were hijacked by political debate. Excerpted from Heterodox Academy by a center-left student who voted for Hillary and dislikes Trump….
…willing to use violence against you, and you can assume that many members of the mob believe that violence against you is morally justifiable. Excerpted with permission from Heterodox Academy…
…advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” The Watchlist was immediately condemned as “pernicious and misguided” by Heterodox Academy (HXA), a non-aligned site but normally a de facto ally of conservatives…
an original article of ours nor a reprint published with permission. It should have run–and appears now–as an excerpt referring readers back to its original site, Heterodox Academy. We regret…
…local government, organized religion, and reading the great books of the Greeks and Romans, if possible in their original languages. That’s why Haidt founded his “Heterodoxy Academy.” The truth is…
…important initiative has appeared in this unlikely month of August: NYU professor Jonathan Haidt of Heterodox Academy has called on students to declare whether they are satisfied with what many…
…the politically diverse world you’ll find after graduation. Heterodox Academy is, therefore, launching an initiative to empower students who want greater viewpoint diversity on campus. Working with students at several…
Political orthodoxy and lack of viewpoint diversity in the academy is now a well-known problem, thanks in large part to Heterodox Academy and the many scholars who contribute to the…
…social psychologists associated with the Heterodox Academy and their concern with the increasing political imbalance of college faculties. “That social psychologists tend to be liberal cannot be surprising,” he points…
…a leftist ideological uniformity.” He sneers at the Heterodox Academy group, which, at Haidt’s lead, criticizes the left’s aversion to free speech. Stanley trivializes their complaint: “I told my mother…
…genuinely action-oriented movement. At the center of this movement is the Heterodox Academy, founded last year by a number of scholars who’ve made it their mission to promote more intellectual…
By Richard Vedder I didn’t sleep too well last night, thanks to Heterodox Academy’s (and NYU’s) Jonathan Haidt and John Leo, who recently carried on a provocative exchange in this…
On January 11, John Leo, editor of “Minding the Campus,” interviewed social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, one of the editors of the five-month-old site, “Heterodox Academy,” and perhaps the most prominent…
…Romney. I then emailed them and asked if I could write up further analyses of the political questions and post them at HeterodoxAcademy. They generously said yes, and then went…
…people who don’t share their values. Especially when there are no adults around who don’t share their values. This article is reprinted with permission from Heterodox Academy. J onathan Haidt…
With so many campuses under renewed pressure to create “safe spaces” from political speech and dissent, growing numbers are asking us at Heterodox Academy: Where can I (or my children)…
Excerpts from a blog on the new site, Heterodox Academy The overall levels of tolerance in society do fluctuate. People are more willing to restrict political rights to their foes…
In the week that a new organization, Heterodox Academy, was established to press for more ideological diversity in academic life, the learned association in my own profession showed how much…
academy, discuss possible solutions, and advocate for policies and systemic changes that will increase viewpoint diversity in the academy and therefore improve the quality of work that the academy makes…
…arrangement that was intended to protect academic freedom and intellectual diversity has mutated into a means of enforcing conformity and excluding the heterodox. And for those representing establishment opinion in…