Unsafe Science
Lee Jussim, Nate Honeycutt, Patrick J. Wolf, Joe Forgas, Luke Conway, Danit Sarah, John McMillian, Rob Sica, Roy, Joachim I. Krueger, Joshua Murray, Mark HorowitzSocial science, common sense, and skepticism applied to controversial topics, and occasional personal takes and twists.
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Inside a Campus Civil Rights Investigation
This is a guest post by John McMillian, a tenured historian at Georgia State University. He’s the author of two acclaimed books: Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America (2011) and Beat...
Klaus Fiedler: In Memoriam
Klaus Fiedler, a sampling man
Joachim Krueger, Brown University
5/18/2026
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Free Speech Lessons In COVID’s Wake
Patrick J. Wolf is a Distinguished Professor of Education Policy and the 21 st Century Endowed Chair in School Choice at the University of Arkansas. He has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited five books and over 200 journal articles...
FY27 Science Budget: A Fuller Picture of Implications for Social Psychology and Beyond
Danit Finkelstein has a B.A. in computer science and is a PhD candidate in Social Psychology at Rutgers working with me. Her research explores how social media and AI shape belief formation, political behavior, authoritarian attitudes, and...
Justice denied?
Universities in the Western world have suffered a serious reputational decline in recent years, as many departments have been taken over by ideological activists committed to radical political action rather than open inquiry and free speech....
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Social Psychologist
Experimental social psychologist studying higher education, focusing on topics including political bias, free speech, scientific integrity, and ideological diversity.
Dr. Patrick J. Wolf is a Distinguished Professor of Education Policy & the 21st Century Endowed Chair in School Choice in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. His Ph.D. is from Harvard University (1995).
Scientia Professor of Psychology at UNSW (area: experimental social psychology). See also https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/joe-forgas and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Paul_Forgas .
Jesus above all. I oppose authoritarianism on every side. Author of Liberal Bullies: What Psychology Teaches Us about the Left's Authoritarian Problem.
I am a computer scientist, a social psychologist, and most importantly, a shaliach. PhD candidate at Rutgers and researcher at NCRI, studying foreign influence operations and fighting for our national security.
Official Substack of John McMillian. Historian at Georgia State University. Companion of Foner (the dog). Books: @SimonBooks, @OxUniPress, @thenewpress. Bylines: @washingtonpost, @cityjournal, @theatlantic, @bostonglobe, @TheTLS, @wsj, and more.
psychology
Staying away from academic fashions, I have studied inductive reasoning, social dilemmas, (ir)rationality & (un)happiness, collaborating with friends & colleagues in the old continent.
Mark Horowitz is an associate professor of sociology at Seton Hall University.
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