Global Survey of Academic Freedom Issues in 2015 [Post 13 of a Series]
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The United Kingdom, Part 4: Northern Ireland In October 2015, Mike Larkin contributed a feature article to the Belfast Telegraph that challenged the fundamental logic in the arguments for the corporatization of Northern Ireland’s universities: “When is a university not a university? When it is a business perhaps? The recent episodes…
Global Survey of Academic Freedom Issues in 2015 [Post 12 of Series]
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH I have somewhat lost track of this series and two other series of posts and will try to complete them before the end of this year and the beginning of the new year makes them less relevant. The United Kingdom: Scotland Legislation that would overhaul higher education provoked immediate and enduring…
At Some Point, Irony and Hypocrisy Become Indistinguishable
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following is from the Daily Kos’s daily newsletter Elections Digest for Saturday, December 10; this edition of the newsletter is subtitled “Voting Rights Roundup”: “Michigan: Without warning last week, Michigan Republicans began talking about introducing a strict voter ID law, and now the state House has passed the measure over Democratic opposition. Odds…
A Christmas Standard Reworked on the Eve of Trump
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In a recent post, Hank Reichman provided a post-election playlist that did a great deal to mitigate my post-election despondency. That playlist could not have included this just released video of Fiona Apple singing a Christmas standard reworked for this particular holiday season: Whether you enjoy the song or not, Fiona…
The Need to Respect Scientific Integrity
Murder Is Our Peculiar Pastime: Fifty Notable American Crime Novels: 27-28
BY MARTIN KICH Hillerman, Tony. Skinwalkers. New York: Harper, 1986. The impact of Tony Hillerman’s novels featuring Navajo policemen Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn has had few precedents in the history of the mystery-detective genre. Although Chee and Leaphorn were not the first fictional Native American detectives, no previous novel or series featuring Native Americans…
Exactly Who Is Working Fewer Hours, Earning More, and Enjoying More Leisure?
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH These are the opening paragraphs of a brief article by Marian Tupy for Reason— “One of my favorite Human Progress datasets comes from the Conference Board and deals with the decline in the amount of work over time. Globally, a worker could expect to work 2,227 hours in 1950. By 2016, however, he or she worked only…
Statistic of the Day: Labor-Related