How Universities Can Rebuild Open Inquiry
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Free the Inquiry
Free The Inquiry is Heterodox Academy’s home for essays, expert commentary, and conversations about open inquiry in the academy.
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Universities Need Reform. It Shouldn’t Matter Who’s Telling Them.
Linda McMahon’s letter isn’t perfect, but its requests are overwhelmingly reasonable.
On institutional neutrality, we should ask not just whether, but who and why?
The discussion around institutional neutrality would benefit from attention to more of the nitty gritty details.
The Weekly: The Education Department Tries a New Approach to Reform; Legacy Admissions Are on the Chopping Block, Again.
Plus, the AAUP’s recent decision to back political candidates continues to draw criticism.
The AAUP Traded Its Credibility for a Ballot Line
By backing a Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, AAUP swapped its historic standing as a non-partisan defender of academic freedom for a louder but more narrow political role.
What Pro Wrestling Can Teach Academia About Honesty
What the campy world of professional wrestling can teach academics about truth, performance, and the courage to break character
Heterodox Research Roundup, July 2026
Faculty support diverse viewpoints in their disciplines; regional public universities get overdue attention; law faculty feel the need to self-censor; and more...
The Vanderbilt-WashU Report Doesn’t Threaten Academic Freedom. It Defends it.
Who should intervene when scholarship turns political? The AAUP had answers.
The Weekly: The AAUP officially turns political; Vanderbilt declares the purpose of the university.
Plus, tensions arise in Florida over the president pick for the University of Florida.
Liberal faculty are surprisingly bullish on political diversity
And more findings from HxA’s national survey on how faculty value dimensions of diversity