In The Case for Contention: Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools, HxA member Jonathan Zimmermann, professor at U Penn, and Emily Robertson, associate professor emerita at Syracuse, argue against the elision of controversial topics. Here’s a lecture by lecture by Zimmermann on the same topic.

Chapman university published a dialogue between two of its professors—HxA member Vernon Smith, a libertarian, and Peter McLaren, a Marxist humanist—to show that “fervent but respectful dialogue” can occur between political opponents.

In Middlebury: My Divided Campus, Allison Stanger recounts how her invitation to Charles Murray was an attempt to debate him—to “grill him face-to-face”—the protesters at Middlebury deemed his mere presence unacceptable.

In this Wall Street Journal interview on campus orthodoxy and Heterodox Academy, Jonathan Haidt digs into the alt-religion underpinning the Middlebury incident and similar violent protests.

Also writing about Middlebury, HxA member Flagg Taylor, associate professor at Skidmore College, writes about... Read more →

Sam Abrams, one of our members, has an article in The American Interest about ideological homogeneity on campuses threatens the ideals of liberal education.

Stanley Fish argues that free speech is not an academic value, in line with his previous book on the topic. Heterodox Academy members Glen Geher has a response.

Yale released a set of activism and advocacy guidelines, addressing previous questions about whether Yale affiliates are bound by rules when they make political statements. These guidelines aim at clarifying existing policies.

Alumni of Queen’s University in Canada are pushing for Queen’s to pass a set of free speech principles as a response to the lack of viewpoint diversity on campus.

Flemming Rose considers how extremism is fostered by ideological self-segregation on both the left and right.

Jonathan Haidt was interviewed by the associate book editor of the Wall Street Journal, Bari Weiss, to... Read more →