those unintegrated bits and pieces

five lessons on how to make university senates formidable

At Emory's first senate meeting this year, the interim president gave non-answers about cutting DEI and firing faculty for Facebook posts.

Stepping into the role of Emory University’s interim president, Justice Leah Ward Sears brought with her quite a legacy: a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, the youngest person eve...

What is the sound of capitulation?

the new authoritarian playbook

at least not yet

notes from crete

notes toward my book on authoritarian psyches

and the idiocy of people who clamor for it

Emory University professor Noëlle McAfee writes of what happened on the Emory campus a year ago.

Hundreds of universities across the United States are speaking out for academic freedom, but few schools in the South have joined the opposition to the Trump adminsitration.

At about age three, I sat at a kitchen table drawing pictures of sailboats on the sea, wondering if it was possible to think about an object like this if I didn’t have a word for it.

and how to prevent that from happening

L’historienne Joan W. Scott est professeure émérite à l’Institute for Advanced Study de Princeton, New Jersey. Mondialement célèbre pour avoir [...]

There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also...

Philosopher trying to make sense of the dark side of humanity in the miidst of so much beauty. Philosophy professor and champion of academic freedom at Emory University. Author of five books including...

Feminine Desire: Honoring the Life and Work of Anne Dufourmantelle and Mari Ruti Keynote Speakers: Noëlle McAfee and Ana Houine Call for Papers The LaConference 2025 will explore and honor the work of...

Critics condemn arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, Columbia University graduate student who led protests over Gaza war

In a 1967 piece for The New Yorker magazine, title “Truth and Politics,” Hannah Arendt foretold something happening today as the alt-right attempts to whitewash away the reality of racial, ethnic, …

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

OCR today announced that Emory University in Georgia has entered into a resolution agreement to ensure compliance with civil rights laws involving alleged harassment of students based on national orig...

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....

When Donald J. Trump said Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could “go wild” on health, he might not have expected his pick for health secretary doing battle against the president-elect’s own voters.

Kennedy is wrong about many public health issues. Questioning fluoridation isn’t one of them.

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Stricter rules and punishments over campus protests seem to be working. Universities have seen just under 950 protest events this semester, compared with 3,000 in the spring.

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