Academic Freedom

In his writings, Mark Lilla calls for images of solidarity to replace what he sees as an unhealthy emphasis on difference, but till now such solidarity has come at the expense of all too many people, argues Michael S. Roth.

By Michael S. Roth

University of Tampa fires a professor who suggested Texas deserved the hurricane for helping put President Trump in the White House.

Dartmouth professors ask president to apologize for his "disavowal" of of a controversial scholar who writes about and is sympathetic to "antifa" activism.

After meeting with hardline, anti-Castro leaders, University of Miami says it won't enter into institutional agreements with Cuba. But what do faculty members think?

Facing intense criticism for caving to censors, Cambridge University Press restores access to more than 300 journal articles it had blocked in China -- but the problem for publishers isn’t going away. Chinese authorities also try to block articles from another journal.

Cambridge press agrees to block access in China to more than 300 articles from a key journal for scholarship on the nation.

Campuses are targets of the alt-right. A new group is proposing a broad, campus-based countermovement.

University says it is blocking event not because of the ideas involved, but for reasons of safety, post-Charlottesville.