Business
Believers in the causes of academic freedom and free speech will undoubtedly recall the case of Steven Salaita, a respected scholar who was hired for a tenured faculty position at the University of Illinois and then, after he tweeted intemperately about Israel’s conduct in Gaza, summarily fired.
Aug. 12, 2015
Responding to an academia-wide furor about the firing of a faculty member over a series of provocative tweets on Israel and Gaza, the University of Illinois board of trustees last week took a vote on the case.
Sept. 15, 2014
Steven Salaita is a respected scholar in American Indian studies and Israeli-Arab relations, which got him hired recently to a tenured position at the University of Illinois.
Aug. 11, 2014
When someone in power praises the principle of free speech, it’s wise to be on the lookout for weasel words.
Sept. 9, 2014
“The present primacy of public relations in the management of universities, the view that they must ingratiate themselves with the public, and in particular with the most wealthy and influential portions of it, the doctrine that a university may properly frame its policies in order to get money and that it may properly teach or study whatever it can get financed--these notions are ruinous to a university in any rational conception of it.”
Sept. 22, 2014
Universities love to portray themselves as havens of open discourse.
Dec. 27, 2016
World & Nation
Here we go again: As Trump administration policies become ever more intemperate and inhumane, critics of those policies are being counseled to become more “civil” in their criticisms.
June 25, 2018
Justice Gorsuch joins the push for ‘civility’ in debate, which is always aimed at shutting down debate
Sept. 13, 2019
Opinion
This past weekend, American Studies Assn. members held our annual conference in Los Angeles, with the theme “The Fun and the Fury.”
Nov. 13, 2014
Obituaries
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the independent-minded jurist whose bright bow ties and courteous manner symbolized an old-fashioned style of integrity, died Tuesday after suffering a stroke a day earlier. He was 99.
July 16, 2019