Peter Bonilla tells the heartening story of two recent court cases that resulted in legal victories for the protection of free speech rights. In one case a federal court addressing a public university and in another, a state's highest court addressing a private university upheld free speech protections for faculty members sanctioned for expressing views their administrations disliked.
Psychological science, currently embroiled in a “replication crisis,” has a more difficult problem concerning the use of statistics. Psychologist John Staddon points out that deducing the causes of individual behavior from group studies, particularly when there is variability within groups, is a fatal error of psychological research today.
July 17, 2023
Political Scientist George R. La Noue laments the imposition of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” criteria in academia and government hiring, arguing that it reduces viewpoin......
May 30, 2018
From the summer issue of Academic Questions, we reprint the controversial article, "The Case for Colonialism." ...
March 18, 2022
Political scientist and NAS board member Bruce Gilley’s article “The Case for Colonialism” (republished in Academic Questions in the summer of 2018), has been the subject o......
July 2, 2020
The idea that there are more than two sexes in human beings is a rejection of everything biological science has taught us. Unbelievably, this idea is coming directly from within the highest......
