Great Minds Don't Always Think Alike

We advance the principles of open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement to improve higher education and academic research.

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Featured Work

HxA President John Tomasi Signs and Endorses ‘Princeton Principles for a Campus Culture of Free Inquiry’

August 9, 2023+Team HxA

Heterodox Academy Welcomes 13 New Campus Communities to Its Growing Network

May 18, 2023+Team HxA

Partisan Science is Bad for Science and Society

April 5, 2023+Matt Burgess +Roger Pielke Jr.

2022 Campus Expression Survey Report

March 22, 2023+Steven Zhou +Nicole Barbaro

Diverse Perspectives: The HxA Blog

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Double-Dipping in Academic Publishing: The Unsettling Exploitation of Authors and Readers

August 17, 2023+Dinesh Kumar (DJ)

Truth-Seeking is a Moral Imperative in Scholarship: A Case Study in the Comfort Women History Wars

August 9, 2023+Frances Gia Phung An

What Does the SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling Mean for Viewpoint Diversity? Not Much. (OPINION)

August 2, 2023+Matt Recla

The Irrelevance of the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision (OPINION)

July 26, 2023+Harry Blain

Teaching Hate Speech to a Class of Students from Different Jurisdictions

July 19, 2023+Amy Lai

Announcements

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HxA President John Tomasi Signs and Endorses ‘Princeton Principles for a Campus Culture of Free Inquiry’August 9, 2023

Nominations for HxA’s 2023 Open Inquiry Awards Now Open Through July 31July 5, 2023

Heterodox Academy Announces Six Inaugural Fellows Joining Its Center for Academic Pluralism in NYC Beginning Fall 2023June 8, 2023

Heterodox Academy Welcomes 13 New Campus Communities to Its Growing NetworkMay 18, 2023

Applications for Cohort 2 of Campus Communities Are Now Open!April 5, 2023

Upcoming Events

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Leveraging Student Orientation Programs to Promote Open Inquiry and Viewpoint Diversity

August 16, 2023

Symposia Session with Stephen Reich - Can we Trojan Horse Our Way to Heterodoxy by Redefining EDI Terminology in Classical Liberal Terms?August 18, 2023

Guest Speaker & Discussion: Jamie Joyce of SocietyLibrary -- Presented by HxPPE & HxLibrariesSeptember 18, 2023

Reports and Briefs

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2022 Campus Expression Survey Report

March 22, 2023+Steven Zhou +Nicole Barbaro

HxA Annual Report FY2022

February 13, 2023+Team HxA

White Paper: Improving the Intellectual Environment in High Schools

July 26, 2022+Samantha Hedges

2021 3-Year Campus Expression Survey Report

March 10, 2022+Steven Zhou +Shelly Zhou

2021 3-Year Campus Expression Survey Research Report

March 10, 2022+Steven Zhou +Shelly Zhou

HxA in the News

Survey Reveals College Students Are Reluctant to Discuss Controversial TopicsMarch 29, 2023

Heterodox Academy Wants to ‘Lovingly’ Push Viewpoint Diversity at CollegesJanuary 27, 2023

How Heterodox Academy Hopes to Change the Campus ConversationJanuary 9, 2023

The Real Chill on CampusJune 16, 2022

How Well Does Your College Encourage Students to Freely Express Views?June 2, 2022

Teaching and Advocacy Resources

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Princeton Principles for a Campus Culture of Free InquiryAugust 9, 2023

Beyond Resentment Course SyllabusJuly 18, 2023

Freedom of Thought CourseJune 29, 2023

SCOTUS Ruling on Race-Based Admissions at Harvard and UNCJune 29, 2023

Reclaiming the Culture of Higher Education: A Best Practices GuideSeptember 12, 2022

HxA’s Next Chapter | John Tomasi and Jonathan Haidt

June 10, 2023+Team HxA

Heterodox Out Loud

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Final Episode: Welcome to Heterodox AcademyJuly 30, 2022

Episode 43: Stop Disparaging Working-Class StudentsJuly 21, 2022

Episode 42: How to Have Conversations That WorkJuly 7, 2022

Episode 41: Is Woke Media Destroying Democracy?June 30, 2022

Episode 40: Free Speech: A History From Socrates to Social MediaJune 16, 2022

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