Self-Censorship Is Easy to Learn, Particularly in Dormitories
…They’re there to learn certain chosen and specialized body of knowledge I don’t think they would ever say that there are more to learn about biology or economics or English…
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The Real Defense of Charles Murray: Truth Not Free Speech
…pseudo-scientific racism, classism and all the rest. Don’t retreat to a web-based safe space and quote from J. S. Mill’s On Liberty yet one more time; one should have been…
The Dangerous Rise of ‘The New Civics’
…water bottles, fair-trade coffee, a diffident approach to pronouns—but it does not require active participation in a campaign of political advocacy. Civic Learning: “Civic learning” is learning how to be…
I Helped Shove My College Downhill
…counselors “specially trained in queer and trans mental health issues” and a department of disability studies. I don’t know how people felt reading it, but I can assure you it…
Should Colleges Coddle the Whiners?
…WIPES OUT RESPECT AND EXCELLENCE I don’t want to dissent from Shulevitz and others who have made related arguments, but I do think that the debate between those who wish…
Nora Ephron’s Famous Talk At Wellesley’s Graduation, 1996
…vanished from the earth. Don’t let the New York Times article about the brilliant success of Wellesley graduates in the business world fool you–there’s still a glass ceiling. Don’t let…
Don’t Look for Marxists or Keynesians in Economics Depts.
…offense if referred to as ‘Keynesians’. At research seminars, people don’t take Keynesian theorizing seriously anymore; the audience starts to whisper and giggle to one another.” Depression Prevention Lucas and…
An Interview with Harvard’s Harvey Mansfield
…HARVEY MANSFIELD: Well, again, students doubt that there really is anything fundamentally that they need to learn. And they look at themselves and say, if I don’t need to learn…
How Anthropology Was Corrupted and Killed
…attacking Western ideas about objective knowledge, but they don’t go far enough. You need radical Black anthropologists to finish the job of destroying the West. Allen and Jobson are perfectly…
Race Baiting in the Name of Justice
…Tometi spoke during the week, and Cullors, while speaking of Dr. King’s legacy, said, “We don’t need a black Christian cis-normative man to take us to the Promised Land.” Tometi…
Hey, Stanford: ‘Western Civ Has Gotta Grow’
…American Revolution, are unfamiliar with the Lincoln-Douglas debates…. don’t know what separates Protestants and Catholics,” and so forth. McConnell concludes: “One thing a great university provides is education about what…
Invited Racist Banned at Williams– Was That Right?
…History has come up with. There have of course been some blots on the record, but I don’t see how it can be denied that net-net, white Europeans have made…
THE NORMALIZATION OF BAD IDEAS
…throughout the country. Underlying this demand are some disturbing implications that have trickled down from radical feminists decades ago: that women don’t really want (hetero)sex, that “consent” itself is manufactured…
A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
…trick. You don’t engage the person’s arguments. You say things that discredit them as a racist or a sexist. JOHN LEO: How do they learn that? The young don’t read…
How MOOCs Foil Distraction
…from physics shows that “students don’t really learn from careful explanations – they learn from making mistakes….Mistakes in the frequent low-stakes quiz questions available online can force students in physics—or…
Campus Turmoil Begins in High School
…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. Jonathan Haidt is…
How Political Correctness Corrupted the Colleges
…their versions of justice? I don’t think the answer to this question is that “this generation” of American college students is just more authoritarian in their way of thinking than…
This Is Not a Day Care Center—It’s a University!
…character is more important than the color of your skin. We don’t believe that you have been victimized every time you feel guilty and we don’t issue “trigger warnings” before…
North Korea Has Taken Over Academe
…for them).But even in this climate, a particularly egregious case occurred recently, whose ramifications continue to unfold. Don’t Mention the Slur At the University of Kansas, on November 12, during…
Why Get-Tough Accreditors Make Classes More Fun and Less Demanding
…sound. Politicians don’t want federal money wasted on degree mills or other dubious schools. Accreditation was thought to be a good defense against that. Back in the 1960s, when the…
THE CHAOS OF COLLEGE CURRICULA
…includes such august names as the University of California–Berkeley, Bowdoin, Hamilton, and Vassar. That some of the best-known colleges earn poor marks for general education doesn’t mean they don’t do…
College Scorecard: How Much Will You Earn?
…choices that don’t always pay off.” Yes, the data show that, which one might say is a reason to be a little more cautious in how emphatically we speak of…
DIVESTERS: NO FREE SPEECH FOR OPPONENTS
Student activists pressing universities to divest from fossil fuels are of two minds about free speech. They want it for themselves, but don’t seem keen on allowing it for opponents….
Heterodox Academy—A New Site
…that are not really settled matters of fact. We don’t want viewpoint diversity on whether the Earth is round versus flat. But do we want everyone to share the same…
The Pressure of Group Thought
…answers don’t matter. It is that getting to the answer by imposing a “consensus” is bound to have bad results for a free people who need to learn how to…
DESPITE CRITICISM, APUSH IS BETTER
…don’t believe I’ve ever used it in my own right in a class lecture, though of course I’ve noted when figures covered in the class, such as Woodrow Wilson, have…
The Fading of Liberal Education
…term the irreverent professors regard as oxymoronic. Academia and Christianity don’t go together. Does Southwest Baptist have a vibrant queer theory collective? But here we have evidence of the opposite,…
Emptying Content from College Courses
…all be readily learned on the job. Their real complaint is that our students, our graduates don’t have the level of literacy, the good habits, the sense of personal responsibility…
Books for Book Virgins and Book-o-phobes
…in western civilization” may be “fun to read—indulgent, even,” but it is time to move on. I don’t mean to make too much fun of poor Kai. He is clearly…
Metal Fatigue and Campus Pessimism
…and sanding of the cultural corrosion that inevitably gains ground if we don’t intervene; the replacement of the broken parts; the determination to keep the essential and to improve where…