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A non-partisan collaborative of educators who believe open inquiry, diverse viewpoints, & constructive disagreement are critical to research & education.
- "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned." Richard Feynman
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty have adopted a resolution that defends freedom of speech and expression — even speech some find “offensive or injurious.” thecollegefix.com/mit-faculty-ad… @CollegeFix
- ""Third Wave Antiracism exploits modern Americans’ fear of being thought racist, using this to promulgate an obsessive, self-involved, totalitarian and unnecessary kind of cultural reprogramming." @JohnHMcWhorter @JoinPersuasion
- "many of my college students had been exposed mostly to writing assignments that focused on emotional self-expression, not rational argumentation. Partly as a result, most of them are poor writers and underdeveloped thinkers." - @ElizabethGMat thehill.com/opinion/educat… @thehill
- Happy to welcome @NewWorldHominin to Heterodox Academy as a Graduate Student Affiliate. Higher education needs more committed #viewpointdiversity advocates like Lindsay Shepherd. Our story on her story: heterodoxacademy.org/2017/11/23/lin…
- The murder of Charlie Kirk today at Utah Valley University was a shocking and reprehensible act. In a democracy, and especially on a university campus, disagreements must be addressed through open inquiry, dialogue, and debate — never through violence. Our thoughts are with
- "I published a paper... defending the study of race differences in intelligence. This topic arouses strong emotions. But... the job of philosophers is to confront issues dispassionately, guided only by reason and evidence..." spectator.us/academics-get-… @spectator @nathancofnas
- "Social justice, grievance studies, victimhood culture and most of the other buzzwords that have come to dominate discussions about institutions of higher learning in recent years: none of this stuff is actually new." heterodoxacademy.org/seizing-means-… @Musa_alGharbi
- Listen to @JonHaidt read his instructive and powerful piece, "Why Universities Must Choose One: Truth or Social Justice" for our first episode of Heterodox Out Loud. Don't forget to subscribe!
00:00Listen Now!From heterodoxacademy.org - A wonderful rallying cry for all those concerned about #viewpointdiversity. We quote this far, wide and often.
- "One of the grimmest tragedies of...this perversion of sociopolitics...is that it will bar more than a few black readers from understanding that I am calling for them to be treated with true dignity." @JohnHMcWhorter @JoinPersuasion
- "Social Justice... is a kind of faith system. This raises serious questions about how we should deal with its attempts to institutionalize itself in various cultural enterprises — especially education." areomagazine.com/2018/12/18/pos… @ConceptualJames @MikeNayna @AreoMagazine
