Academic Freedom

Kirkwood Community College announces that a professor sympathetic to Antifa and critical of evangelical Christians won't be teaching this year, due to safety concerns.

Such an approach requires that we suspend judgment long enough to ask questions in a spirit of openness and curiosity, writes Emily Chamlee-Wright.

University of Queensland says fixed-term gift will provide rare infusion of support for humanities, but professors and students have concerns about academic freedom and the donor's political agenda.

Another professor is under fire for using the slur in class while discussing a work by James Baldwin. Should universities pursue cases against instructors who use the word in a teaching context, not as a weapon?

Penn Law condemns Amy Wax's recent comments on race and immigration as others call for her ouster.

While the respect due to all people should never be compromised, academic freedom should be restricted only with the greatest caution, if ever, write 12 leading scholars.

The disagreement over scholarly debate about gender identity rages on.

Steven Pinker's aid in Jeffrey Epstein's legal defense renews criticism of an increasingly divisive public intellectual.