Push for Censorship on Campus Hit Record Levels in 2025
A true commitment to academic freedom means defending expression even when it’s unpopular or offensive. That’s the price of intellectual integrity in a free society.
Education
The Trump Administration’s Fight To Fund Scientists
While institutions charge private foundations like Gates a mere 10 per cent and Rockefeller 15 per cent for indirect costs, they charge the NIH much higher rates – 69 per cent for Harvard, 67.5 per cent for Yale, and 63.7 per cent for Johns Hopkins.
The Strange Death of Knowing Stuff
When I read that some educationalists have decreed the novel is now considered ‘problematic’ with its ‘white saviour’ narrative and use of racial slurs, then I can’t but help but despair at how quickly something so culturally significant can be memory holed in the pursuit of progressive ideals.
Now We Really Should Bulldoze the Universities
Fostering the bile of anti-Semitism is the last straw.
A Response to Jack McDonald
New Zealanders aren’t going backwards. They’re rejecting the idea that national identity and public policy must be filtered through a single ideological lens. They want a government that governs for everyone – not just for the loudest or most organised voices.
A Discussion on the Irony of Relativism
Science embraces uncertainty. Scientists formulate theories to explain natural phenomena based on the available evidence. But they do not expect those theories to stand for all time.
The Open Mind and the Closed University
Salmond calls for open minds. On this point she is right. But an open mind is not one that refuses to evaluate claims. It is one that is willing to have its own claims evaluated. It is not one that protects ideas from criticism, but one that welcomes criticism as the price of progress.
What Broke the Science?
Reforming this system requires more than ideological shifts or incremental adjustments. The policies governing scientific institutions must be restructured so they are not beholden to an administrative class.
The Damage to NZ Students
Dr Oliver Hartwich of the NZ Initiative previously asserted that the solution to the issues created by NZ’s Ministry of Education involved a truckload of TNT. They haven’t changed under the new government.
Progressives Declare a New Pandemic
A new ‘disease’ is allegedly sweeping the nation – but you don’t catch it quite like Covid.
Seymour Blasts Principal for Media Blitz
Seymour said the outcome was “always the likely outcome” and criticised media outlets that accepted early accusations from the school before any evidence had been examined.
NZ Must Stop Supporting These Textbooks
Imagine a school system funded by New Zealand whose textbooks glorified killing Māori, or demonised Pasifika, or taught that Muslims were inherently evil. There would be immediate, universal condemnation. So why is the response so muted when the hatred is directed at Jews?
More on Prize Givings and Education
A prize for learning to be a conformist, agreeing with things that you know are not true… Really?
Can’t Read, Can’t Think, Can’t Do Maths
More and more college STEM students are needing remedial maths.
Letter to the Roseneath School Board
Response to your letter regarding upholding te Tiriti.