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A non-partisan collaborative of educators who believe open inquiry, diverse viewpoints, & constructive disagreement are critical to research & education.
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    Jun 2
    🔔 OUT NOW: The future of the university. What campy professional wrestlers can teach academics. The zombie apocalypse as a tool for open inquiry. This and more in the newest issue of inquisitive. ⬇️
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    Apr 13, 2017
    "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned." Richard Feynman
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    Jan 6, 2023
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty have adopted a resolution that defends freedom of speech and expression — even speech some find “offensive or injurious.” thecollegefix.com/mit-faculty-ad… @CollegeFix
    MIT faculty adopt free expression statement that protects ‘offensive’ speech | The College Fix
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    Feb 9, 2021
    ""Third Wave Antiracism exploits modern Americans’ fear of being thought racist, using this to promulgate an obsessive, self-involved, totalitarian and unnecessary kind of cultural reprogramming." @JohnHMcWhorter @JoinPersuasion
    The Neoracists
    From persuasion.community
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    Dec 24, 2022
    "many of my college students had been exposed mostly to writing assignments that focused on emotional self-expression, not rational argumentation. Partly as a result, most of them are poor writers and underdeveloped thinkers." - @ElizabethGMat thehill.com/opinion/educat… @thehill
    thehill.com
    Make American education rigorous again
    This inability to write at what was once considered a fifth-grade level is now the norm among students of all socioeconomic backgrounds, races and ethnicities.
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    Jan 13, 2022
    "Male students preferred protecting free speech over an inclusive and diverse society by a decisive 61 to 39. Female students took the opposite position, favoring an inclusive, diverse society over free speech by 64 to 35." @nytimes @Edsall
    Opinion | The Gender Gap Is Taking Us to Unexpected Places (Published 2022)
    From nytimes.com
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    Dec 5, 2017
    Happy to welcome @NewWorldHominin to Heterodox Academy as a Graduate Student Affiliate. Higher education needs more committed #viewpointdiversity advocates like Lindsay Shepherd. Our story on her story: heterodoxacademy.org/2017/11/23/lin…
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    Sep 10, 2025
    The murder of Charlie Kirk today at Utah Valley University was a shocking and reprehensible act. In a democracy, and especially on a university campus, disagreements must be addressed through open inquiry, dialogue, and debate — never through violence. Our thoughts are with
    A police officer from the Orem Police Department remains near the scene Wednesday evening where Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, was fatally shot earlier in the day during Turning Point USA’s visit to Utah Valley University in Orem on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025.
    Conservative activist Charlie Kirk killed in Utah
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    Feb 1, 2020
    "I published a paper... defending the study of race differences in intelligence. This topic arouses strong emotions. But... the job of philosophers is to confront issues dispassionately, guided only by reason and evidence..." spectator.us/academics-get-… @spectator @nathancofnas
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    Oct 4, 2019
    "Social justice, grievance studies, victimhood culture and most of the other buzzwords that have come to dominate discussions about institutions of higher learning in recent years: none of this stuff is actually new." heterodoxacademy.org/seizing-means-… @Musa_alGharbi
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    Seizing the Means of Knowledge Production - HxA
    Reformers of higher ed institutions should seek deeper knowledge about the origins of the concepts and methods that currently dominate.
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    Jan 28, 2021
    Listen to @JonHaidt read his instructive and powerful piece, "Why Universities Must Choose One: Truth or Social Justice" for our first episode of Heterodox Out Loud. Don't forget to subscribe!
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    Apr 20, 2017
    A wonderful rallying cry for all those concerned about #viewpointdiversity. We quote this far, wide and often.
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    Feb 9, 2021
    "One of the grimmest tragedies of...this perversion of sociopolitics...is that it will bar more than a few black readers from understanding that I am calling for them to be treated with true dignity." @JohnHMcWhorter @JoinPersuasion
    The Neoracists
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    Dec 26, 2018
    "Social Justice... is a kind of faith system. This raises serious questions about how we should deal with its attempts to institutionalize itself in various cultural enterprises — especially education." areomagazine.com/2018/12/18/pos… @ConceptualJames @mikenayna @AreoMagazine