Lee Jussim Ph. D.

4 days ago | unsafescience.substack.com | Lee Jussim Ph. D.

This is a reposting of an essay by Matthew Lutz, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wuhan University. You can find more at his Substack, Humean Being. He works mostly on metaethics, and if you want to know what "metaethics" is, you can check out his book (with Spencer Case), Is Morality Real?: A Debate. He is also a frequent contributor at Persuasion. One last personal note.

1 week ago | insidehighered.com | Lee Jussim Ph. D. |Robert Maranto

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. sesame/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images For most of the past decade, many professors lived in fear of challenging progressive beliefs on elite college campuses, beliefs that, as linguist John McWhorter argues, have often attained religious status.

1 month ago | aei.org | Robert Maranto |Sally Satel |Catherine Salmon |Lee Jussim Ph. D.

The Free Inquiry Papers: How to Bring Back Free Inquiry Key PointsFree inquiry is essential for democracy, science, and individual justice. Free inquiry in the United States is under threat. Today’s taboos are developed and enforced not by outsiders but students, professors, and bureaucracies within higher education. Rapid, ongoing changes in higher education bear close examination with regard to their influence on free inquiry in academia.

Dec 18, 2024 | thespectator.com | Pamela Paresky |Lee Jussim Ph. D.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion bureaucracies and programs have become ubiquitous in the corporate and educational sectors. More than half of American employees have DEI meetings or training events at work, at a cost of an estimated $8 billion annually. These initiatives are championed as tools to reduce bias and discrimination, build inclusive and empathetic environments — and redress systemic racism, Yet the effectiveness of such trainings has rarely been rigorously and systematically evaluated.

Nov 22, 2024 | unsafescience.substack.com | Lee Jussim Ph. D.

Longstanding and attentive subscribers have probably gotten used to me debunking woke nonsense masquerading as science. And lord knows there is plenty of that. But the woke are not always wrong. This essay is based on ideas developed in two of my team’s published papers (here and here). That second paper is mostly my usual fare, including scientific critiques of research on implicit bias, microaggressions and stereotype threat.