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The Skill That Built America Has Vanished From Universities

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/the-skill-that-built-america-has

Published: July 2, 2026 12:02

Heterodox Out Loud Ep. 47

How Questioning Medication-First Addiction Treatment Made Me a Heretic

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/how-questioning-medication-first

Published: July 1, 2026 12:02

Questioning addiction treatment orthodoxies shouldn’t lead to academic exile

Heterodox Research Roundup, June 2026

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/heterodox-research-roundup-june-2026

Published: June 30, 2026 13:01

New perspectives on politicization, gender dogma's costs, the case for spoken disagreement, and AI-mapped private university grants.

The Weekly: Gender Studies Professors Call for Internal Reform

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/the-weekly-gender-studies-professors

Published: June 27, 2026 12:02

A recent wave of op-eds shows what a viewpoint-diverse discipline could look like.

The Humanities in Crisis? A Discussion on the “State of Scholarship in the Humanities” Report

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/the-humanities-in-crisis-a-discussion

Published: June 25, 2026 12:02

Scholarly standards have been distorted by political criteria.

And That’s How I Became Korea’s Famous Denialist

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/and-thats-how-i-became-koreas-most

Published: June 24, 2026 12:02

Even sensitive and painful topics must be subjected to open inquiry

Where does Viewpoint Diversity Matter the Most?

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/where-does-viewpoint-diversity-matter

Published: June 22, 2026 12:02

Answer: Anywhere our identities are at stake.

The Weekly: The SAT is back in the business of elite college admissions

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/the-weekly-the-sat-is-back-in-the

Published: June 20, 2026 12:01

Student preparedness, AI, and the fact that test-optional was never about diversity.

An Analysis of College Syllabi on Contentious Issues

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/an-analysis-of-college-syllabi-on

Published: June 18, 2026 12:03

How should schools teach controversial issues, and what happens when ideology shapes education?

How the 1980s and '90s Culture Wars Made America Stop Trusting Universities

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/how-the-1980s-and-90s-culture-wars

Published: June 17, 2026 12:03

The roots of today’s polarizing debate over higher education stretch from the 1960s to the 1990s

The Weekly: Has politicization harmed the humanities? Yes, but…

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/the-weekly-has-politicization-harmed

Published: June 14, 2026 12:02

Praise of the ‘Vanderbilt-Wash U Report’ can be found, but with a large dose of criticism.

Vanderbilt Report’s Assessment of Scholarly Health Should Be the First of Many

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/vanderbilt-reports-assessment-of

Published: June 13, 2026 13:48

At its essence, the report is a call for accountability.

Policy Implementers Can Shape Campus Culture More Than Legislators Do

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/policy-implementers-can-shape-campus

Published: June 12, 2026 12:03

I spent years translating laws into practice inside a public university system. Here's what that taught me about the real levers of open inquiry.

Cass Sunstein on What's Actually Wrong With the University

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/cass-sunstein-on-whats-actually-wrong

Published: June 11, 2026 12:03

Heterodox Out Loud Ep. 46

Why American Universities Are Coming Apart

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/why-american-universities-are-coming

Published: June 10, 2026 12:03

The 20th century was about building bigger universities. The 21st century may be about breaking them apart.

Grade inflation didn’t just corrupt transcripts. It corrupted curiosity

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/grade-inflation-didnt-just-corrupt

Published: June 5, 2026 12:03

And it corrupts the choices faculty make about what to demand.

Heterodox Research Roundup, May 2026

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/heterodox-research-roundup-may-2026

Published: June 4, 2026 12:03

Faculty support institutional neutrality; institutional neutrality is gaining traction in the UK; author prestige can substitute for claim testability in research; and people tend to be more credulous

Campus Free Speech Has Become Political Theater. So Has the Outrage About It.

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/campus-free-speech-has-become-political

Published: June 3, 2026 12:03

When performative outrage replaces real inquiry and debate, everyone loses

Stanford HxA Chapter Launches “Disagree with a Professor” Event Series

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/stanford-hxa-chapter-launches-disagree

Published: June 1, 2026 12:03

An interview with Adam Spitzig and Collin Anthony Chen

The Weekly: A Third of Faculty are Self-Censoring in Teaching, Research

https://www.freetheinquiry.com/p/the-weekly-a-third-of-faculty-are

Published: May 30, 2026 12:02

Surveys from Yale, the University of Michigan, and Iowa State universities show a troubling trend