Should We Forgive Student Debt?
Listen to an Intelligence Squared US debate featuring Nick Gillespie.
Listen to an Intelligence Squared US debate featuring Nick Gillespie.
Doing away with standardized testing doesn't help low-income applicants gain entry to elite colleges.
What the John Mearsheimer controversy tells us about theory’s role in international affairs.
How the weaponization of sexual misconduct allegations wrecked Florian Jaeger's life and cost his university millions
The Love in the Time of Contagion author says sexual paranoia is on the rise.
Some student editors had resigned from the journal due to the inclusion of an "anti-trans" article by philosopher Kathleen Stock.
Dellinger was a famed constitutional law scholar at Duke University, and also held important positions in government during the Clinton Administration.
Universities are better off if the faculty do not all think alike
The New York Times columnist and Columbia University linguist on the "new religion" he says has "betrayed Black America."
A conversation with the AAUP and FIRE about changes in the tenure system at state universities in Georgia
The Academic Freedom Alliance rebukes Michigan for its handling of Bright Sheng case
The Academic Freedom Alliance responds to the provost's public email
A few Volokh Conspirators are among the most cited legal scholars in their fields.
The board of regents proposes sweeping changes that would significantly weaken tenure protections for faculty.
The latest edition of the Sisk, Catlin, Anderson, and Gunderson study of faculty scholarly impact is out. Download it while it's hot.
Sandra Oh leads Netflix's satire on the state of academia today.
He repeats his concern that QI doctrine rests on "shaky ground" and imposes a "one-size-fits-all doctrine" that is "an odd fit for many cases," including those involving university administrators.
It does not seem that way, despite some reporting to the contrary.
Why is straight reporting on educational reform measures so difficult.
New CDC guidelines strengthen the already compelling case for doing so.
Columbia University linguist John McWhorter on "anti-racism" as a new, misguided civic religion and his new book on curses, Nine Nasty Words.
A free online conference sponsored by the LeFrak Forum on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy at Michigan State University.
The chaos at Lake Washington Institute of Technology is by no means an isolated occurrence.
A Ninth Circuit decision that may be of particular interest to academics.
When the feds failed to track COVID-19, Emily Oster stepped in.
Fourth and final post in my series on how to write an academic book and get it published.
Third in a series of posts on how to write an academic book and get it published.
a response to an important and thoughtful argument by Jacob Levy
In The End of Gender, Debra Soh stands up for impartial research—and for LGBTQ rights.
"Well-intentioned efforts to celebrate diversity may in fact reinforce racial stereotyping," say two Carleton College faculty.
Plus: Georgia makes it a hate crime to damage police property, SCOTUS denies relief to prisoners, Trump escalates war on Chinese apps, study casts doubt on "diversity training," coronavirus in schools, and more…
Plus: Tuesday primary results, TikTok may move to London, polls show growing distrust in media, and more...
"Academic staff...are no longer free to make controversial statements to the general public about politically or socially controversial matters," one of them writes.
When a university president threatens a professor with consequences for writing an article, free expression loses out.
The Souls of Yellow Folk author says a new "elite consensus" fixated on racial outrage is forming and may destroy our ability to function.
Second in a series of posts how how to write an academic book and get it published.
Part I in a series of posts about how to write an academic book and get it published.
It can work well in some circumstances, but so far does not seem like an adequate substitute for conventional classroom instruction for large classes.
In a new book, Peter Boghossian, one of the perpetrators of the "grievance studies" hoax, outlines how ideological opponents can reach common ground.
In fact, they didn’t have any detectable impact at all.
As law students begin classes over the next few weeks, here are some points I hope they will keep in mind that can help make better use of their time in law school - and beyond (reposted from my 2018 post on this subject).
Terms of the grant specified that if Missouri did not use the money to hire free market professors, the donation would revert to Hillsdale.
From textbooks to professors, universities remain mostly hostile to free market thinking.
Some students at the University of the Arts want the firebrand feminist fired. Where did they get the idea they should be picking faculty?
The answer is no, despite conservatives' claims to the contrary. But that does not entirely resolve questions about the wisdom of the policy.