The Eternally Radical Idea

A Glorious Liberty by Damon Root, Marvel Mystery Comics, and Carly Rae Jepsen's Emotion receive July's Prestigious Awards Read more

Greg Lukianoff's thoughts on the recent deluge of bills aiming to regulate teaching about race and gender in K-12 and on campus. Read more

The Prestigious Ashurbanipal Award: “The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth” by Jonathan Rauch In perhaps the least surprising book award of the year, the recipient of my Prestigious Ashurbanipal book award for June 2021 is “The Constitution of Knowledge,” which releases tomorrow, June 22, 2021. As everyone who knows me knows, Jon Rauch... Read more Read more

John McWhorter’s ‘Nine Nasty Words’ is my May book of the month — with a serious digression into academic freedom & teaching about epithets Read more

The first-ever Excessively Prestigious Award goes to Jonathan Rauch's book "Kindly Inquisitors." Read more

“Dangerous Ideas” is a comprehensive, entertaining historical account of censorship in the West. But I have some reservations about its last chapter. Read more

The most important personal takeaway from Julia Galef’s excellent “The Scout Mindset" is that you do not, in fact, have to be self-deceived to be happy. Read more

These programs show a fundamental misunderstanding of the paths towards mental health, and a lack of interest in measuring their psychological effects. Read more

The University of Delaware played host to an aggressive thought-reform campaign in 2007. Did it end there? Read more

Ideological conformity and censorship at top education schools has created a cohort of politicized and evangelical K-12 teachers. Read more