Harvard administrators pushed a faculty committee to cancel a long-running, biannual symposium featuring tenure-track women’s research, citing legal concerns about hosting a single-gender event, accor...

When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York

I'm a postdoc in philosophy at University of Hamburg, working on social and political philosophy and ethics. My current projects are on political agency, sexual consent, and the philosophy of Black fe...

The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.

The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...

Never in the history of our nation has a university so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat. All who care about higher education must stand up and fight back against this unprecedented continuin...

Thursday, July 24, 2025 Last week the New York Times published a powerful op-ed by Omer Bartov, the distinguished scholar of the Holocaust, entitled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It…

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

The Daily Pennsylvanian Summer Editorial Board argues that Penn’s concessions to the Trump administration set a dangerous precedent for academic freedom.

Efforts to remove bike lanes in Toronto could result in more injuries and make transportation more challenging for people.

Sly Stone, the wildly inventive musician and head of Sly & the Family Stone who fused rock, funk and soul, has died at age 82.

Mingo Junction, just south of Steubenville. A chapter from legendary labor reporter Mary Heaton Vorse’s marvelous book on the Great Steel Strike of 1919 sees her travel with Mother Jones through th…

A recent group statement showed that the nation’s academic leaders, at first reluctant to oppose the president’s moves, are beginning to unite.

Trump Says Canada Doesn’t Work — But the Facts Say Canadians are Smarter, Richer and Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier Lives - Trump is Full of S***

On Tuesday, Reuters reported that leadership at the Department of Justice has reassigned “about a dozen senior career attorneys” in the Civil Rights Division to perform perfunctory tasks usually assig...

They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage...

America needs to figure out how to dominate the industries of the future. Call me a “Waymo Democrat.”

The historian Steven Hahn puts Trumpism in the context of America’s long history of illiberalism.