Politics Review “Good Intentions Gone Awry”: Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s The Coddling of the American Mind. Book Review. Posted on October 26, 2018October 28, 201814 commentsbyIona Italia There has, in recent years, been a significant change in the way in which many left-wing activists—especially student activists—express their complaints against their ideological opponents on the right. In their… View Post
View Post 11 min Features Campus Speech Debate: The Nightmare of the Nineties is Alive Posted on May 14, 2018May 18, 20187 commentsbyOliver Traldi On Tuesday night I was lucky enough to attend a very engaging debate at the Comedy Cellar in New York City. Organized by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and… View Post
View Post 4 min Culture & Media Why Universities Have Shifted to the Political Left in the past 20 Years Posted on December 7, 201710 commentsbyPhil Magness University faculty ranks have long been thought of as bastions of the political left, and with good reason: sizable majorities of professors self-identify as modern liberal or left-leaning in their… View Post
View Post 23 min Features The State of the Campus and Women’s Self-Censorship Posted on October 24, 2017December 31, 201711 commentsbyHelen Pluckrose The academy is under attack. Or so it seems. News stories seem to come in almost daily reporting academic witch hunts, disinvitations, demands for no-platforming, words that must not be… View Post
View Post 5 min Politics Free Speech Wars on Campus and the Apolitical Student Posted on October 11, 20176 commentsbyJoanna Williams Anyone who regularly spends time at a university can’t fail to notice the gulf between the popular image of students and the quieter, far more boring reality. In the past… View Post
View Post 17 min Features Evergreen College, Free Speech, and the Meaning of Social Justice Posted on July 20, 2017October 10, 20178 commentsbyA. Jay Adler “Identity politics” rises on all sides. Identity politics are commonly attributed to the political left, where they are a response to the original, historical identity politics – male, and, in… View Post
View Post 17 min Features How French “Intellectuals” Ruined the West: Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained Posted on March 27, 2017May 3, 2018406 commentsbyHelen Pluckrose Postmodernism presents a threat not only to liberal democracy but to modernity itself. That may sound like a bold or even hyperbolic claim, but the reality is that the cluster… View Post