Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Recalling the Roots of Jewish American Heritage Month
The United States has a long tradition of celebrating its diverse communities with heritage observances throughout the calendar year. And yet not […]
Political Theory Beyond the Text
Political theory is often presented as if it lives mainly in books. We imagine it in canonical texts, famous thinkers, and abstract […]
Making Critical Thinking a Daily Habit: Sage’s Critical Thinking Challenge Winners
Critical thinking is an important skill, but in practice, it’s often taught in isolated moments rather than as something students can and should use every day. At a […]
Anti-Universities, Archives and Abolitionism: Alternative Models to the University
The current crisis in higher education – marked by defunding, marketization, privatization, corporate governance, and the devaluation of the humanities – demands […]
Tom Gilovich On the Spotlight Effect
Tom Gilovich finds it fun to study the whys and wherefores of how human beings make sense of the information delivered by […]
The Visual Authority Trap
The challenge: Students tend to perceive attractive looking results as more trustworthy. This is the aesthetic bias, a behavioral phenomenon where humans […]
How Publishers Extract Money, Labor, and Data from Universities
On this platform, growing attention is paid to structural issues in academia, including trust in science and the role of metrics and rankings. In the […]
From ‘Which Database?’ to ‘Under What Conditions?’: Teaching Critical Thinking Through Search Tool Selection in an AI Age
A few years ago, if you asked students where they began their research, the answer was predictable: “Google” or “Google Scholar.” Today, […]
