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<jats:p>The status, prestige, and authority of science rest on the belief that scientific findings are reliable and true. But scientific understanding changes over time, and scientists themselves possess all the inclinations, motivations, and sensitivities that render humans fallible. For these reasons, argues Henry Bauer, science needs to be fact-checked and adjudicated by a “Science Court.”</jats:p>

<jats:p>The left-wing tilt of the American professoriate is not confined to social studies and humanities departments. Despite its intimate association with free markets, private enterprise, and banking, the nation’s top academic finance departments are also staffed mostly with professors on the political left.</jats:p>

<jats:p>The values of multiculturalism and scientific progress collide with federal laws such as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which require that human remains and cultural items discovered on tribal lands be given over to the descendants of Native Americans. For many of these descendants, the scientific study of objects that could improve our understanding of North American culture, history, and biology is not a high priority.</jats:p>

<jats:p>The editor's introduction to this issue discusses the conflict between two words and concepts that appear to work in tandem, but remain in tension.</jats:p>

<jats:p>In the wake of the George Floyd-inspired riots of 2020, a surfeit of colleges and universities has publicly admitted to the failure of the affirmative action policies they have practiced for the past fifty years. Instead of an honest evaluation of these failures, higher education leaders have doubled down, promising that proportional group representation will be the overriding goal of virtually all campus activities. In light of recent demographic changes, they should be careful of what they wish for.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Diversity training (sometimes called “anti-racist” training) is based on a trendy but intellectually vacuous theory that whites are universally privileged and non-whites are everywhere victimized. But as a practical matter, there is a bigger problem for those hoping this training will result in greater intergroup harmony: it doesn’t work.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Speak your mind or even just float an idea on a college campus today and you might have to pay a steep price. So many just hold their tongue. Philosopher Mark Mercer explains that self-censorship is widely practiced in university communities, and suggests several ways to upend it.</jats:p>