Archive - Free the Inquiry

What We’re Watching Out For In The 2026-2027 Academic Job Ad Cycle

DEI statement requirements are on the decline. Will this trend continue in 2026?

10 hrs ago • Dylan Selterman

Is Institutional Neutrality Necessary to Preserve the University as a Forum for Open Inquiry?

A debate co-hosted by Heterodox Academy and the Steamboat Institute.

Jul 5 • Heterodox Academy

1:17:21

The Skill That Built America Has Vanished From Universities

Heterodox Out Loud Ep. 47

Jul 2 • John Tomasi

44:24

How Questioning Medication-First Addiction Treatment Made Me a Heretic

Questioning addiction treatment orthodoxies shouldn’t lead to academic exile

Jul 1 • Andrea D Clements, PhD

June 2026

Heterodox Research Roundup, June 2026

New perspectives on politicization, gender dogma's costs, the case for spoken disagreement, and AI-mapped private university grants.

Jun 30 • Erin B. Shaw, Shiri Spitz Siddiqi, Dylan Selterman, and Phong P. Truong

The Weekly: Gender Studies Professors Call for Internal Reform

A recent wave of op-eds shows what a viewpoint-diverse discipline could look like.

Jun 27 • Nicole Barbaro Simovski, Ph.D.

The Humanities in Crisis? A Discussion on the “State of Scholarship in the Humanities” Report

Scholarly standards have been distorted by political criteria.

Jun 25 • John Tomasi

1:00:55

And That’s How I Became Korea’s Famous Denialist

Even sensitive and painful topics must be subjected to open inquiry

Jun 24

Where does Viewpoint Diversity Matter the Most?

Answer: Anywhere our identities are at stake.

Jun 22 • Justin McBrayer

The Weekly: The SAT is back in the business of elite college admissions

Student preparedness, AI, and the fact that test-optional was never about diversity.

Jun 20 • Nicole Barbaro Simovski, Ph.D.

An Analysis of College Syllabi on Contentious Issues

How should schools teach controversial issues, and what happens when ideology shapes education?

Jun 18 • Heterodox Academy

56:54

How the 1980s and '90s Culture Wars Made America Stop Trusting Universities

The roots of today’s polarizing debate over higher education stretch from the 1960s to the 1990s

Jun 17 • Team Wendell

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