BY HANK REICHMAN The latest attempt to blacklist dissenting faculty members is the so-called “Professor Watchlist,” a project of a group called Turning Point USA founded by an ambitious twenty-something named Charlie Kirk. The group’s website says it seeks to “to expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values and…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Last week the AAUP, the College Media Association, the National Coalition Against Censorship, and the Student Press Law Center issued a report on “Threats to the Independence of Student Media,” which cited multiple cases in which college and university administrations exerted pressure in attempts to control, edit, or censor student journalistic…
BY HANK REICHMAN Yesterday I posted to this blog “The Oakland Fire Tragedy and Higher Education,” in which I tried to describe some of the economic factors that have compelled so many young artists and others in the Bay Area to live in often illegally converted warehouses and similar spaces while authorities turned a blind…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following open letter has been signed by over 2,000 scientists, including 22 Nobel Prize recipients:
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…
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…
BY HANK REICHMAN I first learned of the horrible fire that on Friday night destroyed a live-work warehouse in Oakland, California, claiming 36 lives, early the next morning when I turned on my smartphone. A bulletin informed me that nine had already been found dead at an electronic dance music (EDM) “rave” held in the…
BY KELLY HAND In 1967, during a period of intense student protests, the AAUP and four other groups issued a Joint Statement on Rights and Freedoms of Students. Many issues covered in the statement are as pertinent fifty years later as they were in 1967, and the AAUP invites proposals for presentations focused on these…
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