Academia Academics turn against scholarship By Frederick M. Hess October 14, 2022 02:00 AM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Academia Academics turn against scholarship By Frederick M. Hess October 14, 2022 02:00 AM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Jonathan Haidt speaking in Aspen, July 3, 2015. Leigh Vogel/WireImage/Getty It’s not often that a professor quitting an academic society makes news. But Jonathan Haidt, professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, author of The Coddling of the American Mind, and champion of free inquiry in higher education, raised a ruckus when he announced he’d be quitting the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. In a blistering letter explaining his decision, Haidt wrote that under a new SPSP policy governing its annual conference, all scholars seeking to present research “are now required to submit a statement...