Academia
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
The good news on academic free speech
The Office for Students has offered some cause for optimism
The problem with precarity
Professional insecurity is harming workers and institutions alike
Badmissions procedures
Putting decisions in the hands of non-specialist administrators fails students and universities
Guardrails of civilisation
If politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from the campus
The rise of academentia
Mere transgression is being elevated above genuine insight and creativity
Death by red tape
“Soft cancellation” is the preferred tool of institutionalised censoriousness