The Need to Respect Scientific Integrity
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following open letter has been signed by over 2,000 scientists, including 22 Nobel Prize recipients:
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…
The Oakland Fire Tragedy and Higher Education
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…
June Conference Proposals on Student Rights and Freedoms Due December 13!
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…
Statistic of the Day: Labor-Related
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Statistics of the Day: Politics-Related
Statistics of the Day: Higher Ed-Related
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Whose Schools?! Our Schools
BY TIFFANY KRAFT Are you kidding me? University board chairs and college officials justify fat salaries while faculty and students are starving? This is not only unconscionable business practice, it’s intentional economic injustice that’s killing the American dream. Enough is enough: fight exploitation. Here’s a holiday story that is all too familiar for faculty and…
"The Art of the Slur," Revisited
BY AARON BARLOW