
Tag: academic freedom

I for one can’t believe that Bari Weiss and Thomas Chatterton Williams haven’t been all over the case of Garrett Felber, a leftist historian at the University of Mississippi fired for crit
It has been twenty months since Viktor Orban’s Fidesz government launched their legislative attack on Central European University. Today, CEU officially announced that it will move all US-accred
The broad-based attack on “incivility” from academics continues. But of course “civility” can only be defined as language that makes the administrator class comfortable. Given
In the corporate university, money is what counts. Without public support, universities have become captured by the wealthy donors and corporations who fund them. This is a major contributor to the sh
Why have we seen a recent crackdown on academic freedom and freedom of speech against academics, whether Stephen Salaita or myself? The answer is that administrators are scared of controversy. It remi
I certainly have my critique of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States as a good history book, but it’s power and importance can’t be denied. And that’s wh
Wisconsin Republicans attack free speech and academic freedom using horribly written statute. …more from Krugman. And Fallows.
This attack on academic freedom — an adjunct hired to teach a course was fired by Brooklyn College administration after a state assemblyman sent a letter arguing that the syllabus and instructor
- Uvalde police didn’t want *anyone else* doing their job, either
- 19 dead kids and 19 live cops
- Monsters
- Metal Masculinity
- Coward cops and America’s WMD gun fetish
- The Glemming
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,104
- Ray Liotta’s greatest role
- Uvalde and the transparent absurdity of American gun laws
- Casualties of war