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Lessons of a Forgotten Campus Scandal April 08, 2024
In early 2018, a graduate school classmate contacted me. Did I know that one of our former professors was up for tenure—the one who’d made a pass at me years ago? Did I remember how upset I’d been when that happened, how I’d come to her, distraught, ...
Cancelled July 05, 2023
Arif Ahmed, a professor of philosophy at Cambridge University, has been appointed the UK’s first ‘free speech tsar’. The position – Ahmed’s official title will be director for freedom of speech and academic freedom – is a creation of the Higher Educ...
Philosophy’s No-Go Zone April 19, 2023
A staple of Philosophy 101 is René Descartes’s Meditations, in which the 17th century Frenchman devotes himself to the “general demolition” of his own opinions. In a couple of pages, he succeeds in demolishing his conviction that he has “hands or eye...
Actually, You Don’t Know That Much March 10, 2023
Stories of campus political excesses pile up like bodies. To cite a few recent examples: There was the law student group at Berkeley that banned Zionist speakers, the Stanford Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative, and the Valdosta State Univers...
