
Alice Dreger
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Writer, journalist, historian. Managing editor @HdxAcademy but all opinions here just my own. Bylines NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Boston Globe, WIRED, The Atlantic, CHE...
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2 weeks ago |
heterodoxacademy.substack.com | Alice Dreger
With Harvard University at the top of the news today following the Trump administration’s decision to stop Harvard from having international students, we bring you a timely Heterodox Academy conversation with Harvard psychologist and HxA memberSteve Pinker. Besides being a world-class researcher in human behavior, Steve has a long history of advocacy for academic freedom, free speech, and viewpoint diversity.
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3 weeks ago |
heterodoxacademy.substack.com | Alice Dreger
How hard was it for Nick Wolfinger to find contributors to the new book, Professors Speak Out: The Truth about Campus Investigations? Not difficult at all, he said in yesterday’s Heterodox Academy webinar. So many professors have been through so many disorienting, unjust, and damaging investigations at American universities that – even though some potential authors could not participate in the book out of legal gag orders or fear of retaliation – he was able to include 22 first-person stories.
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3 weeks ago |
heterodoxacademy.substack.com | Alice Dreger
Two questions – what counts as activism in academia and what (if anything) should be done about it – formed the core of our lively webinar last Wednesday as I spoke with the University of Wyoming’s Martha McCaughey and the University of Chicago’s Tom Ginsburg and took questions from Heterodox Academy members. The idea for this conversation arose from the contributions of Tom and Martha to inquisitive, a new quarterly periodical I manage at Heterodox Academy.
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1 month ago |
heterodoxacademy.substack.com | Alice Dreger
While we definitely saw the kind of constructive disagreement you’d expect at any conference cosponsored by Heterodox Academy, participants at Thursday’s special May Day Conference on Free Inquiry at the University of California, Berkeley, seemed to all agree on one thing: American universities need to rebuild trust with the public.
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1 month ago |
heterodoxacademy.substack.com | Alice Dreger
Want to effectively and sustainably help combat antisemitism on American college campuses? Don’t attempt to force a particular definition of antisemitism, but do require antisemetic harassment to be taken seriously. Also require institutions of higher education to adopt policies that prevent disruptions to classes and campus events, preserve libraries as places for study, and protect the physical safety of those on campus.
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My latest column for @HdxAcademy https://t.co/YEkiaQ890t

RT @DrTonyLetai: I run an academic lab, and the service contracts on instruments are absolutely killing our budget. Anyone know of a better…

People sometime ask me how I can stand living in a neighborhood that has student rentals. It's the little things like this. (The boys throw things to try and hit it.) https://t.co/3S9pcNO6NM