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Are Universities Still the Enemy of "Truthiness"?
"The School Examination" by Albert Anker, 1862. Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain.
When Stephen Colbert coined the word “truthiness” on the first episode of “The Colbert Report” in 2005, the context was not trivial. The United States had re...
The Weekly: Can higher ed explain itself?
It’s been a big week for big questions about open inquiry and higher education in general. Is academia too incoherent to last? Too deferential to Trump? Or perhaps, as the old song goes, too legit to quit?
Check out the top news stories we...
Surprising Findings from 14,000 AI-Facilitated Student Conversations
Pair two students who strongly disagree about immigration or abortion, tell them to hash it out, and most people expect it to go badly. Across almost 14,000 conversations, it hasn’t. In this Heterodox Academy virtual colloquium, HxA Segal C...
Writing Is Dead. Long Live Writing.
"Man Writing a Letter" by Gabriël Metsu, c. 1664–1666. Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain.
In the university right now, there is a paradox at the core of our project. Thanks to the pervasiveness of artificial intelligence, writing has sudden...
Too many faculty are working in disciplinary echo chambers.
Imagine being a faculty member on a university campus. Your job is to discover, produce, and disseminate knowledge. Now also imagine that you have no regular interactions with colleagues in which you have substantial disagreement about your...
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Free The Inquiry, by Heterodox Academy, is devoted to the defense and advancement of open inquiry in higher education.
Michael Regnier is Heterodox Academy's Executive Director. A former charter school founder and K-12 education advocate, he's a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Chicago.
Erin B. Shaw is a Research Associate at HxA. Her background is in education research and survey methods.
Phong P. Truong is a Resource Developer at Heterodox Academy.
Scientist. Researcher. Social Psychologist. Writer. Podcaster. Heterodox. Opinions my own. https://www.dylanselterman.com/
Justin McBrayer is an academic philosopher and the Director of University Partnerships at Heterodox Academy.
a social scientist interested in nonfiction books, higher education, and evolutionary science
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Social scientist. Friend of puppies.
Shiri Spitz Siddiqi is a Senior Researcher at Heterodox Academy. She is a social psychologist with expertise on political bias, affective polarization, and moral judgment.
Joseph (Jake) Klein is a writer, filmmaker, and co-founder of The Black Sheep. He is also the author of Redefining Racism: How Racism Became "Power + Prejudice." Follow him on X @josephjakeklein.
John Tomasi, the President of Heterodox Academy, is a political philosopher who earned his graduate degrees at Oxford University. A long-time professor at Brown, he has also held teaching and research positions at Princeton, Stanford, and Harvard.
Author of the forthcoming "Moral Courage: The Gutsy Practice for Influencing What You Can't Control - at Work, Home, and Beyond" (spring 2027). Founder & CEO, Moral Courage College. Some label me a workaholic. Truth is, I'm a learnaholic.
Scott F. Parker is the author of Teaching without Teaching, among other books. He is an assistant teaching professor at Montana State University.
Psychology professor at the University of Toronto studying effort, empathy, and AI. Author of Speak Now Regret Later. The ideas are mine though I sometimes collaborate with the machines I study to help me put them into words.
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