Casey Chalk writes for the Federalist about the impact of artificial intelligence on our lives. As impressive as artificial intelligence has already become across a variety of disciplines, from computer…
Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey discuss the benefits od diversifying viewpoints on college campuses. Those who care about the future of the American academy should be interested in the…
Patrick Gray writes for the Martin Center about important questions surrounding a liberal education. What is the value of a liberal arts education? At a time when parents are wary…
Gordon Wood writes for Project Syndicate about similarities between political debates in the present day and those at the time of Andrew Jackson’s presidency. The Jacksonian era, like our own,…
Sumantra Maitra writes for the Martin Center about responsibility for declining faith in science and its outcomes. In an essay in the liberal UK broadsheet The Guardian, multiple authors chart…
Alex Sosler writes for the Martin Center about the problems associated with an overemphasis on critical thinking in education. To speak against critical thinking in today’s academy is comparable to…
What is gravity, and how does it work? Those basic questions form the basis of an article, “The Gravity of the Situation,” in the latest issue of The American Scholar…
“John Locke is the most influential philosopher of modern times. Locke’s importance reaches far beyond the limits of what has since his time become recognized as the professional discipline of…
An Oxford Ph.D. candidate named Nathan Cofnas makes that claim in an article recently published by Quillette. I think he’s right, and I think what he has to say is…
Richard Fernandez writes at PJ Media about a problem that plagues much of today’s scientific research. A map as big as the world is useless because any economical map of…
… and I’m not saying you do, nor should. After all, Krugman disagrees with Krugman, frequently, and doesn’t seem to suffer a crisis of intellectual confidence about it. Nevertheless, Eli…
To cut to the chase: because doing otherwise is a great waste of time and money, as well as fraught with the risk of shackling oneself risibly to the quantitative…