Tag: academic freedom

• America’s Great Brain Drain | Countercurrents

  July 5, 2025

  “A few years ago, no one would have imagined that one of the biggest democracies in the world would cancel research programs under the pretext that the word… https://countercurrents.org/2025/05/americas-great-brain-drain/?utm_source=perplexity more ›

• Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’

  June 22, 2025

  When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/21/harvard-slavery-decendants-of-the-enslaved?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›

• On with Kara Swisher: Judith Butler on Why Gender Is in Trump’s Crosshairs

  April 27, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/Lgp07QK Philosopher and critical theorist Judith Butler, Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at UC Berkeley, has been at the forefront of gender theory for 35 years. But while… more ›