Academia

The school has attracted attention for its refusal to join the higher-ed resistance and, perhaps not coincidentally, for its avoidance of any direct sanctions by the Trump Administration.

I was used to a disembodied way of working: identify a philosophical problem, then study it. What could spending time with a philosopher teach me about his ideas?

What does a Harvard Business School professor’s decision to sue the professors who raised questions about her research bode for academic autonomy?

As the Israel-Hamas war provokes claims about unacceptable speech, the ability to debate difficult subjects is in renewed peril.

The life of an academic lacks natural narrative momentum. Cue cancel culture.

Transference and the contemporary classroom.

Emma Green discusses a major debate in academia about whether contemporary politics are shaping our understanding of the past too much.

Literature departments seem to provide a haven for studying books, but they may have painted themselves into a corner.

The seventy per cent of Americans who support unions should understand that the future of organized labor won’t be in coal mines or steel mills but in places that might cut against the stereotypes.

The China Initiative is over, but the trial of Franklin Tao shows that the D.O.J. project’s chilling effects persist.

Some say that cancel culture poses an existential threat to national discourse. Others say it’s a political fabrication. What if neither side is right? And what’s at stake in the debate?

The humanities are in danger, but humanists can’t agree on how—or why—they should be saved.

The actress, who has made a career out of playing complementary roles, is skilled at working off the energies of those around her. Were this real life, these are precisely the qualities that would make her a good academic chair.

Using just her eyes and memory, Elisabeth Bik has single-handedly identified thousands of studies containing potentially doctored scientific images.

By limiting discussion of the infamous Supreme Court decision, law-school professors risk minimizing the role of racism in American history.

A conversation with the columnist Nesrine Malik about who makes the changing rules of public speech.

Activists refer to a “Palestine exception to free speech” at North American universities.

The #BlackInTheIvory hashtag helped to surface decades of bias at universities.

During her scholastic career, Krug’s advisers, editors, and colleagues failed to recognize the gap between something thrown-on and something lived-in. That inattentiveness was her escape hatch.

The political pressure that wealthy donors exert on universities rarely gets aired so publicly.