Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by PJ Media on December 4, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Throughout the history of civilization, many major conflicts have been framed as religious wars. Opponents identify with different religions and refer to them in explaining the conflict. Beginning in […]
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We professors should transmit to our students three simple but ancient truths: (1) in many important matters in our fields, the ignorance of experts vastly exceeds our knowledge. (2) Much of what we think we know is hard to verify and may well be wrong. (3) We, and the materials that we will assign and […]
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A couple of years ago, six social scientists published a paper describing a disquieting occurrence in academic psychology: the loss of almost all its political diversity. As Jonathan Haidt of NYU, one of the authors of the paper wrote in a commentary: Before the 1990s, academic psychology only leaned left. Liberals and Democrats outnumbered Conservatives and Republican […]
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