@ilanaredstone

Professor. Writer. Speaker.

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Academic Papers

Books

The Certainty Trap: Why We Need to Question Ourselves More―and How We Can Judge Others Less

Why We Disagree about Inequality: Social Justice vs. Social Order

Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education

Articles

(Fall 2025) Contested Questions in Public Schools | National Affairs

(Sept 9, 2024) ‘A Healthy Democracy Requires Social Trust’: A Conversation with Ilana Redstone - HFG

(May 10, 2024) Why It’s So Hard to Change Minds About DEI

(Feb 21, 2024) Democracy and the problem of certainty – Culturico

(May 15, 2023) What Is Elizabeth Hoover Apologizing For?

(Mar 16, 2023) Opinion | The Stanford Law fracas was a perfect example of the Certainty Trap - The Washington Post

(Mar 7, 2023) Nikki Haley’s campaign ad is bad, but not for the reason you might think

(Mar 7, 2023) Actually, You Don’t Know That Much - Arts & Letters - Tablet Magazine

(Oct 19, 2022) Ilana Redstone: Sex ed and desegregation actions in Illinois suggest we may not be asking the right questions – Chicago Tribune

(Sept 30, 2022) The problem of political polarization lies largely in how we think

(Summer 2022) Breaking Out of the Certainty Trap – SAPIR Journal

(May 9, 2022) The Certainty Trap - News - Tablet Magazine

(Jan 13, 2022) The Fallacy of Equal Knowledge | City Journal

(Jan 12, 2022) Viewpoint Diversity in the Classroom Benefits Everyone

(Jan 9, 2022) The Crisis of Moral Legitimacy - News - Tablet Magazine

(Nov 23, 2021) America by Gaslight - News - Tablet Magazine

(June 20, 2021) ‘Campus Reform’ and Higher Education - Arts & Letters - Tablet Magazine

(Jan 23, 2021) Why ‘Just Follow the Science’ Won’t Solve All Our Problems

(Jan 12, 2021) The Danger of Unassailable Ideas - Discourse

(Jan 10, 2021) The Case for Cautious Optimism - Arts & Letters - Tablet Magazine

(Dec 22, 2020) When the "Racism" Doesn't Seem Racist - by Ilana Redstone

(Nov 30, 2020) An Old Recipe for a More Balanced Discourse - Discourse

(June 4, 2020) George Floyd Protests: What Role Does Racism Play in America? | National Review

(Feb 12, 2019) College, a Left-Wing Bubble | National Review

(Jan 24, 2019) The Dangers of Defining Deviancy Up

(Sept 28, 2018) 3 Ways That Colleges Suppress a Diversity of Viewpoints

(Aug 19, 2018) Kimmel and Conflict Theory: Sociology Turns on One of Its Own

(Aug 1, 2018) Prepare Students to Be Foxes, Not Hedgehogs - HxA

Talks, Podcasts, etc...

(June 10, 2026) Ilana Redstone: Escaping the Certainty Trap

(Apr 27, 2026) The Lost Art of Listening: Building Empathy Across Differences

(Apr 21, 2026) Ilana Redstone on sociology, certainty, and the roots of progressive extremism

(Apr 21, 2025) Are You Stuck in the Certainty… - SAM&PAM's Book Radar - Apple Podcasts

(Apr 8, 2025) Conversation with Ilana Redstone on her book, The Certainty Trap

(Feb 27, 2025) The Certainty Trap with Ilana … - Point of Learning - Apple Podcasts

(Feb 17, 2025) Education Book Discussion Featuring: Ilana Redstone — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal

(Feb 4, 2025) UIAA Speaker Series: The Certainty Trap - Democracy’s Biggest Threat

(Jan 6, 2025) Ilana Redstone - The Lou Perez Podcast - Apple Podcasts

(Nov 1, 2024) The Certainty Trap: Why We Need to Question Ourselves More and How We Can Judge Others Less

(Sept 10, 2024) We Must Change The Way We Thin… - The Social Contract with Joe Walsh - Apple Podcasts

(July 30, 2024) Stuck in the Certainty Trap: Ilana Redstone | I Wish They Knew #191

(July 12, 2024) [The Certainty Trap] | C-SPAN.org

(June 19, 2024) Outrage 41 - How Certainty Fuels Outrage and Division - Ilana Redstone - Outrage Overload

(Apr 1, 2024) The Certainty Trap: Democracy's Existential Threat (UMASS)

(Mar 7, 2024) Prof. Ilana Redstone of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on the Certainty Trap.

(Nov 9, 2023) Ilana Redstone on Enlightenment on Campus in the 21st Century

(May 22, 2023) 21: Encouraging Free Speech on… - Texas Rising - Apple Podcasts

(July 11, 2023) 100% certainty is a trap; why … - Leading Consciously - Apple Podcasts

(Dec 26, 2022) Microcollege Podcast, E21: Prof. Ilana Redstone - Beyond Bigots & Snowflakes, Mill Institute at UATX

(Nov 7, 2022) Gain Confidence By Losing Cert… - The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum - Apple Podcasts

(Jan 21, 2022) Ilana Redstone | Challey Workshop

(Oct 18, 2021) "I think that there is a real problem": A Conversation with Professor Ilana Redstone

(Oct 14, 2021) Episode 23: What the "Free Speech" Debate is Still Missing | Ilana Redstone

(May 11, 2021) Freedom, Open Inquiry and the Academy with Helen Pluckrose and Ilana Redstone

(Dec 10, 2020) Episode 7: Doing Diversity Dif… - The Dissidents - Apple Podcasts

(Nov 26, 2019) #73: Ilana Redstone, Heterodox Sociology

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