July 3, 2025
Preview articles in this issue with pieces by R. Lawrence Purdy, Erwin H. Epstein, Liah Greenfeld, Emre Kuvvet, and more.
July 3, 2025
Editor's introduction to the Summer 2025 edition of Academic Questions.
July 3, 2025
It took many decades and just as many bad court decisions before the Supreme Court delivered its verdict in SFFA v. Harvard, revitalizing the foundational meaning of our civil rights laws—e......
July 3, 2025
The concept of “decoloniality”—i.e. defying Western customs and standards of knowledge acquisition—has captured the field of Comparative Education. This is bad for learning and......
July 3, 2025
The collapse of communism in the early 1990s left large numbers of social scientists studying Cold War topics without purpose or relevance to policymakers. With communism and class conflict passé......
July 3, 2025
A new study by finance professor Emre Kuvvet finds a strong positive association between organizational commitment to diversity and workplace accidents and lost workdays. Additionally, the study shows......
July 3, 2025
This is the third article in a three-part series exploring what Collin May’s cancellation as the Chief of the Alberta Human Rights Commission (AHRC) in 2022 can tell us about disintegrating free......
July 3, 2025
The ghost of author William Shakespeare reacts to news that the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is “decolonizing” the Bard’s hometown museum.
July 3, 2025
The Spring 2025 issue of Academic Questions contained a review by William M. Briggs suggesting that social scientists discard “frequentist” statistics, which in his view has badly degraded......
July 3, 2025
The Spring 2025 issue of Academic Questions contained a review by William M. Briggs suggesting that social scientists discard “frequentist” statistics, which in his view has badly degraded......
July 3, 2025
Books by Adam Kirsch and Margaret D. Jacobs offer contrasting views on the fraught topic of what the Left has termed “settler colonialism,” allowing James W. Springer to expose the intelle......
July 3, 2025
Two more books join the medley of volumes published in the last decade seeking to explain why the West has lost its cultural footings. Matthias Gisslar and Frank Furedi agree that “modernityR......
July 3, 2025
U.S. colleges are in trouble—financially, demographically, academically, politically—and two recent volumes offer answers to some of the most pressing problems. While one volume, by Brian......
July 3, 2025
Modern science played an integral part in the rise to global dominance of both the Soviet Union and the United States in the twentieth century. Simon Ings’ Stalin and the Scientists explores, th......
July 3, 2025
Books by two broadly libertarian lawyers—Jonathan Turley’s The Indispensable Right and Ilya Shapiro’s Lawless—seek to explain what Turley calls the “alliance of academic,......
July 3, 2025
Edward S. Shapiro’s dissects Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message, in which Shapiro discovers that Coates is an “ideologue awash in his grievances,” basking in the undue ad......
July 3, 2025
Alexander Riley critiques Tricia Rose’s Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives―and How We Break Free, a wholly inadequate attempt to explain racial disparities with ap......
July 3, 2025
In his review of Steve Sailer’s Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023), Jason Richwine tells us that with the publication of this book—a compendium of Sailer’s greatest......
July 3, 2025
Philosopher Stephen Kershnar reviews Progressive Myths, by Michael Huemer, “a fun and powerful read” in which Huemer inspects a plenitude of factual claims made by progressives that “......
July 3, 2025
Matthew Stewart looks at David M. Rabban’s Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right, in which Rabban makes the “argument that academic freedom merits the......
July 3, 2025
NAS Research Fellow Mason Goad reviews John A. Gentry’s Diversity Dysfunction: The DEI Threat to National Security Intelligence, “a deep dive into the damage that DEI has wrought......
July 3, 2025
David Lewis Schaefer takes a different approach than Bruce Frohnen on Ilya Shapiro’s Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites, and finds that Shapiro has “performed an invaluabl......
July 3, 2025
Robert Carle finds The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt by Edward O’Keefe is an important corrective to the revisionist historians who dismiss “Roosevelt as a racist, a warmonger, or......
July 3, 2025
J. Scott Turner finds that Richard Dawkins’ and Jana Lenzová’s The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie is an eloquent defense of the Darwinian faith that won&......
July 3, 2025
Brendan Dooley sees Bradley Campbell’s How to Think Better About Social Justice: Why Good Sociology Matters as a “brief but punchy … educated but not pedantic” attemp......
July 3, 2025
Paul Carls’ Multiculturalism and the Nation in Germany: A Study in Moral Conflict, writes Jacob Williams, is a “breath of fresh air” that analyzes the conflict triggered by the......
