A New Study Utterly Fails to Demonstrate the Sinister Effects of Right-Wing Philanthropy at Universities
From textbooks to professors, universities remain mostly hostile to free market thinking.
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.
Firing Peter Boghossian for failing to get permission from the institutional review board would threaten academic freedom.
And now the cabal invites you to read it.
Surprise: If you work very, very hard at fooling people, you will often succeed.
Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff explain how "good intentions and bad ideas" have made young people super-fragile-and how to make things better.
Some ideas that might help you make better use of the opportunities available to you.
A new report on the academic influence of law faculties and tallies of legal citations by specialty.
The Volokh Law School "faculty" would outscore all but one other law school in the most recent Leiter ranking of law schools by scholarly impact.
Daniele Struppa says progressives who would deny money simply because of who gives it pose "a grave threat to academic freedom."
Marquette is ordered to reinstate John McAdams.
Deb Mashek explains why intellectual diversity can't be optional if we're serious about higher education.
"What we're really watching is a breakdown in society's capacity to reason with itself," former Evergreen State College evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein tells The Fifth Column.
"I find their performances of masculinity often defy the conventional feminization of meatless diets."
For months, Penn Law has resisted calls to punish Amy Wax for her public comments on race. Yesterday, they caved.
The YouTube sensation headlined Students for Liberty's LibertyCon and embodied the tolerance and good humor he espouses as an interviewer.
Princeton University's Keith Whittington explains why it is sometimes wise -- even necessary -- to expose students to potentially offensive material
Twitter doesn't need to be a "planetary-scale hate machine" for everybody.
Parents complained about postcards that were part of an educational set kept in the school library.
Fired chemistry professor is suing the school.
Renegade University's Thaddeus Russell on the federal-accreditation racket, why the Ivys are terrified of competition, and how postmodernism is libertarianism's ally.
Academic publishers are "still acting as if the internet doesn't exist," says Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science.
The speech amounted to an illegal side job, according to Danish officials.
"It's dangerous to say that a topic is off the table just because it might be a little bit controversial," says the Wilfrid Laurier University student.
It's another of a panoply of ways to silence opinions academics and students disagree with.
The academy, the director of the African Studies program contends, has never considered speech a central value.
Academic freedom stripped bare at Howard University.
Kmele Foster and Lawrence C. Ross, Jr. debate in New York on May 16.
An analysis of 50 years of U.S. court cases shows professors seldom win in speech battles with school administrators, and it's only getting worse.
Forcing students to sign agreement accepting slurs and curses was "a tremendous recruitment tool."
Purdue's Mitch Daniels, Brookings' Jonathan Rauch, and students at Claremont-McKenna speak up loudly for the free and open exchange of ideas.
'Gender justice' warriors in the Department of Education are pushing campus officials too far.
"Intercourse with robots-don't try to be ridiculous," say Malaysian police.
Faculty senate says "that shielding students from controversial material will deter them from becoming critical thinkers and responsible citizens."
Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit explains why college is Camelot in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Trying to turn back the herd of independent minds.
The pernicious silliness of cultural appropriation censorship.
The Northwestern professor discusses her Title IX "inquisition" and the sexual paranoia that has overtaken universities.