Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
The response on many universities to a high tide of intolerance has been to limit free speech. That, says James Turk, is exactly the wrong response.
A concern for free expression and respect for science journalism are two themes Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood expounds on in an article in the newest edition of ‘Index on Censorship.’
Around the United States, state lawmakers have been talking about – and legislating – ways intended to protect free speech on college campuses. Bt some of the approaches may do more harm than good, argues Neal Hutchens.
The only way out of the current state of tension for Indian universities, argues political scientists Aftab Alam, is for the institutions to learn to tolerate everything except intolerance.
As sociology has drifted further and further from any conservative touchstones, argues Robert Dingwall, it has become less and less able to understand the society that provides its subsistence.
The rush to publish a revised Common Rule for federally funded human research in the United States has created a flawed regulatory regime, says Robert Dingwall., Time to tear the whole edifice down and start over, he suggests.
The news that students at City, University of London have voted to ban The Sun, Daily Mail and Express newspapers from its […]
A literature professor who has offered ‘trigger warnings’ to students argues that the warnings are designed to open up a discussion of difficult material – not suppress it.