The first in a recurring series from Heterodox Academy, our Weekly Bulletin published every Tuesday replaces our Weekly Roundup previously published on Fridays. Submit news links and other info to Jeremy Willinger at willinger@heterodoxacademy.org. 1) Updates from Heterodox Academy The Skeptics are Wrong: Attitudes About Free Speech on Campus are Changing, by Sean Stevens and..
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..
By: Ian Storey of The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College Princeton University professor Lawrence Rosen, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology, found himself as the latest professor in the national spotlight when The Princetonian reported that several students walked out of his class after Rosen repeatedly used the n-word as..
Sean Stevens is HxA’s Research Director The founding of Heterodox Academy had roots in a collaboration between five social psychologists and one sociologist that produced a featured paper, and 33 responses to it, in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. A number of specific recommendations to improve social psychology were made, but the main thesis was that..
In this past calendar year, Heterodox Academy has published a range of insightful pieces on various campus events, academic research, viewpoint diversity initiatives, new resources and other topics. Here, we present a selection of the most popular blogs from 2017.
By: Dr. Lee Jussim, founding member of Heterodox Academy and Akeela Careem, PhD Candidate in Social Psychology at Rutgers University In this essay, we discuss Spiked’s Unsafe Spaces event, held at our home institution, Rutgers. It was, at times, a wild and woolly event, complete with a substantial security presence, Black Lives Matter activists, some..
New Heterodox Academy member Adam Grant, professor of management and psychology at UPenn’s Wharton School, wrote in Saturday’s New York Times op-ed page:
The skill to get hot without getting mad — to have a good argument that doesn’t become personal — is critical in life.
We couldn’t agree more.
At a meeting hosted by the Penn Law chapter of the Federalist Society on Wednesday, October 11, 2017, Penn Law Professor Amy Wax delivered a talk on the suppression of divergent opinions at Penn Law and how she believes dissent and disagreement ought to work.