October 1, 2019
A campus fiction about a Catholic professor's encounters with the politics of promotion in academia.
August 30, 2017
Efforts to censor Cambridge University Press show how far the Chinese government will go to stifle intellectual freedom.
August 25, 2015
Superfluous political examples in philosophy texts show political bias that harms the discipline, scholars, and students.
June 6, 2014
The integrity of science depends on rigorous and transparent peer review—both of which may be compromised in climate change research.
October 24, 2013
Psychology professor Richard Redding reflects on the firestorm surrounding Mark Regnerus's recent study on children of gay parents. Dr. Redding concludes that social science has been politicized......
June 11, 2013
NAS president Peter Wood's article, “The Sixties Came Late to Bowdoin,” appears in the current issue of the scholarly journal Society.
September 26, 2012
The way humanities departments at research universities measure productivity – by counting publications – incentivizes unproductiveness in teaching.
July 24, 2012
A scholar whose research identified disadvantages for children of same-sex marriage faces opposition by those who dislike his findings.