Free the Inquiry

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.

Author and editor of Rare Insights, No Sense, and A Little Sunlight.

Academic & depolarization enjoyer. Current Postdoctoral fellow at the Segal Center for Academic Pluralism. Previously Harvard GSE/GSAS.

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.

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.

Scott F. Parker is the author of Teaching without Teaching, among other books. He is an assistant teaching professor at Montana State University.

Christian J. Pulver, PhD, is an independent researcher who writes about the ways rhetoric and literacy evolve in digital culture. He is the author of the book "Metabolizing Capital: Writing, Information, and the Biophysical Environment."

Author of The Revolt of the Public, former CIA analyst, presently a Visiting Fellow at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University

Distinguished Professor of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Professor of Political Science

Media sociologist, Associate Professor at The New School, and Co-Director of the Center for the American Experience. Author of Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics, a New Yorker Best Book of 2024.

Historian. Author of FIT NATION: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession and CLASSROOM WARS: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern American Political Culture.