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Protecting Accused Sexual Harassers on an Illinois Campus
Aug 30, 2019 Campus leaders vow reforms, but many say it’s a long road.
The Academics Who Unleashed the Demon of Geopolitical Power
Dec 3, 2018 As a generation of leaders crowds onto the world stage with its own bold geopolitical visions, it's important to trace the roots of the elusive term "geopolitics."
From Academia to Art School: An ‘Old Black Woman’ Starts Anew
Aug 31, 2018 African-American historian Nell Painter's inspiring and captivating memoir tells of her going to art school at age 64 after a brilliant academic career.
Forget Tribalism, Disavow Politics and Stand Up for Inclusive Justice
Mar 30, 2018 When we glom on to political labels and attach ourselves to partisan ideologies, we allow the establishment to shatter us into encampments.
The Elites Won’t Save Us
Feb 13, 2017 The danger we face does not come, in the end, from Trump and his malignant cabal. It comes from severely weakened and corrupted democratic institutions.
Professor Who Criticized Trump Is in Hiding After Death Threats
Dec 15, 2016 Academics increasingly are being targeted by conservative elements.
America Treats Most Academic Faculty Like Peons, and the Results Are Not Pretty
Sep 20, 2016 The growth of insecure faculty members in American higher education has consequences that reach far outside the classroom and far beyond the lives of poorly paid teachers.
The Intellectuals We Abandon
Sep 5, 2016 The late political philosopher Sheldon Wolin explicated the mechanisms of control and manipulation used by the powerful But those who most need to read his work have been left in darkness by an academy that has turned its back on the oppressed and caters to the elites (Pictured, Wolin and James Baldwin, right) The late political philosopher Sheldon Wolin explicated the mechanisms of control and manipulation used by the powerful).
Academia Is Still Plagued by Sexual Harassment and Assaults
Jul 13, 2016 Anita Hill’s groundbreaking testimony at the 1991 confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gave women new language for coping with age-old problems. But it didn’t make the problems go away.
Exile as a Space of Disruption in the Ivory Tower
Feb 8, 2016 The spaces of retreat from public life occupy too many institutions of higher education, which have been transformed into dead zones of the imagination mixed with a kind of brutalizing defense of their own decaying postures and search for status and profits.
