Without self-criticism, there can be no progressive thought in the academy Scholars who teach the rest of us to read Locke and Mill ‘against the grain’ decline to do the same in the case of their own heroes, says Eric Heinze By Eric Heinze 15 April
Sussex’s fine underlines the folly of censoring rival arguments Any academic who adopts a social constructionist view of gender without studying the alternatives is embarrassingly superficial, says Eric Heinze By Eric Heinze 28 March
Trigger warnings are nothing but tribal slogans Alerts about troubling material project ethical universality but trumpet some forms of injustice while conveniently bypassing others, says Eric Heinze By Eric Heinze 5 November
Disciplinary and court hearings are no places to confront objectionable ideas Debate risks legitimising dehumanising ideologies, but rebutting such views is how progress has always been made, says Eric Heinze By Eric Heinze 19 February
The sins of authors should not bar their works from reading lists Students’ task is never to read authors uncritically but to fully grasp all sides of every argument, says Eric Heinze By Eric Heinze 2 September
Should I go to that conference in Hungary? Boycotts betray free enquiry, but Viktor Orbán’s moves against the Central European University at least make them worth debating, says Eric Heinze By Eric Heinze 27 April
On when a face veil is and isn’t a problem in lectures Some lecturers will rightly encourage forms of student interaction that are impossible for those covering their faces, Eric Heinze argues By Eric Heinze 8 September
