Liberty
Campus Illiberalism on the Rise
Tevi Troy explores for Discourse the path that leads to campus illiberalism. Free speech is under assault on America’s campuses, as cancel culture and the woke mob strive to stifle…
Jonathan Haidt
American social psychologist (1963-)
Liberty
American Institutions Are Undermining Themselves
Zaid Jilani writes about the role American institutions are playing in hurting themselves. The Urban Institute is one of America’s most storied think tanks. For half a century, it has…
Education
Social justice education’s negative impact on young minds
Samantha Hedges argues at National Review Online that education based on social justice leads to unintended negative consequences for students. Such stories are becoming more prevalent today, with the rise…
Liberty
Defending free speech
Tevi Troy writes for National Affairs about the best way to ensure protection of free-speech rights. Any survey of contemporary life on America’s campuses reveals that our institutions of higher…
Education
Martin Center president explores 1776 Unites project
Jenna Robinson of the Martin Center highlights one tool in the fight against college campus victimhood. Over the past decade, American moral culture has changed. The evidence of those changes…
Education
Martin Center’s Leef highlights higher education’s problem with alternative views
George Leef writes for the Martin Center about growing efforts among college campus faculty to enforce an academic party line. Glenn Geher is a psychology professor at SUNY–New Paltz, where…
Education
Martin Center column focuses on ‘intellectual desegregation’
Fabio Rojas writes for the Martin Center about problems associated with uniformity of opinion among academics. A few years ago, Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist, realized that most of his…
Liberty
An antidote for snowflakes
Kyle Smith offers National Review Online readers ideas to help their children avoid becoming “snowflakes.” The cult of safetyism dates only to about 2013. That was the start of an…
Education
Leef’s latest Martin Center column offers warning about ‘coddling’ of American minds
George Leef’s latest Martin Center column follows developments in higher education since a highly publicized 2015 article titled “The Coddling of the American Mind.” In 2015, Greg Lukianoff (president of…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The Limits of Government Reorganization and Reform
What is the role of education in America? What is government’s role in providing that education? A new White House government reform plan states that education should provide students with…
Liberty
A Free Speech Primer
If you’re looking for a way to explain the importance of free speech to your college-aged friends and relatives, Heterodox Academy has the book for you! All Minus One is an…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Better Budget Institutions, Lower Taxes
How many times in life have you known the right thing to do and ended up doing the wrong thing? You ate the chocolate cake—the whole thing—instead of going to…