25 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell was President of Harvard University from 1909 to 1933, who built Harvard into a modern research university while attempting to impose antisemitic enrollment quotas.
Billy Bulger is a former Massachusetts state Senate president and University of Massachusetts president whose refusal to help authorities locate his fugitive brother Whitey Bulger sparked ethical and political controversy.
British research university founded in 1209 — one of the world's oldest and most prestigious — whose philosophy, classics, and natural science departments have trained many of the thinkers referenced in Jonathan Bi's work.
Research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, founded in 1887, notable as the site of Sigmund Freud's and Carl Jung's only American lectures in 1909 — the event that introduced psychoanalysis to the American public.
American Ivy League research university founded in 1754 as King's College, home of the Columbia Journalism School and a major center of social science, law, and medicine in the United States.
Cornell University in Ithaca New York — founded 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White — home of Tad Brennan (Stoic philosophy) and previously Rachana Kamtekar (Plato), making it a significant center for ancient philosophy scholarship.
Duke University in Durham North Carolina — which housed J.B. Rhine's Parapsychology Laboratory from 1935 to 1965, making it the most important institutional home of parapsychological research in the 20th century — until the lab became independent as the Rhine Research Center.
America's oldest university, founded in 1636, whose undergraduate computer science program produced Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Nate Blecharczyk among the most consequential technology entrepreneurs of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Harvard College is the undergraduate liberal arts college of Harvard University whose amicus brief in Regents v. Bakke articulated the diversity rationale that became constitutional law.
The Harvard Crimson is the daily student newspaper of Harvard University, founded in 1873 and the oldest continuously published daily college newspaper in the United States.
Harvard University is the oldest university in the United States, founded in 1636, consistently ranked among the world's top research universities.
Organization co-founded by Jonathan Haidt — which advocates for viewpoint diversity in universities and tracks campus free speech — arguing that ideological homogeneity in academia corrupts research.
Large public research university in Columbus, Ohio, where Jordan Peterson completed his doctoral studies in clinical psychology, conducting early research on alcoholism and behavioral inhibition.
British research university — the oldest in the English-speaking world — whose philosophy and classics departments (the PPE degree, the greats curriculum) have trained an enormous proportion of British intellectual and political leadership.
Rice University in Houston Texas — a small private research university known for its science and engineering programs but also housing Jeff Kripal's J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought — the institutional home of Kripal's work on mysticism and parapsychology.
American professor at NYU Stern, entrepreneur, and media commentator whose Prof G podcast and books make sharp, sometimes contrarian arguments about Big Tech, higher education, and the economic challenges facing young men.
St. Anne's College, Oxford is an Oxford University constituent college that integrated men beginning in 1979, used in the lecture to illustrate how moral objections are disguised as utilitarian arguments.
American public research university in the University of California system — home to the psychology department where Sonja Lyubomirsky conducts happiness research — one of the UC system's growing research campuses.
The University of London is a federal research university in London, United Kingdom, co-founded by utilitarian reformers including Jeremy Bentham.
American flagship public research university in Austin, Texas — one of the largest universities in the US — known for its law school, business school, football program, and as the home of Bryan Caplan and other MW-connected academics.
The University of Texas Law School is the defendant in Hopwood v. Texas (1996), the Fifth Circuit case that temporarily banned race-conscious admissions in Texas.
Major Canadian research university in Toronto where Jordan Peterson served as a professor of clinical psychology — the institutional base from which he developed his undergraduate lectures, wrote his books, and launched his public career before his 2022 suspension.
University of Virginia in Charlottesville — founded by Thomas Jefferson — which houses the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS), the world's most productive center for scientific research on reincarnation, near-death experiences, and anomalous consciousness, founded by Ian Stevenson.
Yale University, founded 1701 in New Haven Connecticut — one of the founding Ivy League universities — whose Law School, Divinity School, and humanities departments have produced major American intellectual figures, and whose residential college system is the model for liberal arts education.
Durham University is a public research university in Durham, England, founded in 1832. It is one of the UK's leading universities, known for its collegiate system (modelled partly on Oxford and Cambridge), and its strengths in theology, philosophy, archaeology, and sciences.