Disciplines – Heterodox Academy

Research Summary: Race and the Race for the White House: On Social Research in the Age of Trump

Sean Stevens
Political Science
April 19, 2018

Al-Gharbi argues that when research disparages Trump and his supporters on weak evidentiary grounds, the credibility and viability of the broader social research enterprise is called into question as well. Many on the right already view the humanities and social sciences as essentially “partisan propaganda,” he reminds, and have called for defunding social research on these grounds. It is therefore imperative that research about these already-skeptical constituents be as fair-minded and rigorous as possible.

Data on how Ideological (Under)Representation Compares to (Under)Representation Along the Lines of Race, Gender or Sexuality

However, a question has come up time and again regarding the relative scale of these challenges: how does the lack of, say, political diversity measure up when compared to underrepresentation by race, gender or sexuality? To get at this question, we can compare rates of faculty identification across different identity measures.

David Frum on Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic: Half Hour of Heterodoxy #22

Chris Martin
Half Hour of Heterodoxy
March 26, 2018

David Frum (@davidfrum) is a senior editor at the Atlantic Magazine and a frequent contributor at MSNBC. He is a former speechwriter for George W. Bush and is known for coining the phrase “axis of evil.” He has been a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a contributor at the National Review. He is the author of nine books including most recently Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic, which we discuss today.

Teaching Heterodoxy: Uncomfortable Questions Up For Discussion

Richard Prystowsky
Faculty
March 22, 2018

my part of the discussion was aimed at raising a number of important but difficult and often uncomfortable questions regarding free speech, critical inquiry/critical thinking, and diversity empowerment—questions that I present below for use in classrooms or lessons or to stimulate discussion among peer groups.

The Skeptics are Wrong: Attitudes About Free Speech On Campus are Changing

Sean Stevens
Empirical Evidence
March 19, 2018

By Sean Stevens (HxA Research Director) and Jonathan Haidt (HxA Board Chair) Abstract: Recent essays by Jeffrey Sachs and Matt Yglesias have asserted that widespread concerns about free speech on American college campuses are essentially a moral panic with no basis in fact. In this blog post, we show that such skepticism is not justified by..

Musa Al-Gharbi on Social Research: Half Hour of Heterodoxy #21

Chris Martin
Graduate School
March 15, 2018

https://media.blubrry.com/halfhourofheterodoxy/p/content.blubrry.com/halfhourofheterodoxy/Musa_Al_Gharbi-Half_Hour_of_Heterodoxy_21.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSSShow Notes Musa Al-Gharbi (@musa_algharbi) is a research associate at Heterodox Academy and a PhD student in sociology at Columbia University. He is a writer whose work has been featured in The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and several other venues. The topics..

Oxford’s Junk Science on Fake News

Jeremy Willinger
Academic Research
March 6, 2018

HxA research associate Nick Phillips has published a new piece in The American Conservative on a recent Oxford study built on faulty science making waves and further dividing communities. The study by Oxford University scientists, “Polarization, Partisanship and Junk News Consumption over Social Media in the US” purports to show that on social media, conservatives..

Three Strategies for Navigating Moral Disagreements

Musa al-Gharbi
Academic Research
February 16, 2018

By: Musa Al-Gharbi, research associate at Heterodox Academy We in America and Western Europe, and by now many other places in the world, have this idea of people as fundamentally rational. On this account, our profound cognitive abilities are designed to help us discover objective truths about the world through logical argument and empirical observation...

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