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...launch in June of 2008. “This journal is meant to be written in a jargon-free, accessible way,” McMillian said. “It’s written for scholars, but we shun the myopic form you sometimes find in academia, so we can reach both scholars and public intellectuals.” He said the journal will include interviews with people of the era, book reviews, poetry, and perhaps graphics. Michael S. Foley, an associate professor of history at the City University of New York and one of McMillian?...
...Although Wallace and Yang said they used the same critical thinking process and research methods to get the business started, they have found this new line of work to be fulfilling in a way their scientific work rarely is. “You get on a set path in academia that’s hard to get off of. There are things I love about the academy, but if we’re successful I could do this full time,” Wallace said. “In the lab, you spend hours at bench not socializing. Here...
More generally, the quashing of Summers’ speech points to a troubling trend in academia. Increasingly, the unrestricted marketplace of ideas that must form the heart of any university worth the name is being poisoned by a perverse pressure to conform truth to political agenda and stifle any speaker who espouses uncomfortable or invonveneint opinions. In the present case, the culprits are academics who fashion themselves as progressives eager for social justice and tolerance, but the other side of the political spectrum is no less guilty in others. This situation is alarming and dangerous. If academic freedom cannot exist...
...perfect president. At times, he was less tactful than he should have been; he may have been overly ambitious in his reforms; and many of his ideas were controversial. But Larry Summers is not a symbol of racism or sexism. He is a progressive who values intellectual honesty in academia. To claim otherwise is to grossly distort his words and beliefs...
Maureen Stanton and company represent the worst of academia. The side that politicizes its classrooms and refuses to hear, or let others hear ideas that they find distasteful or uncomfortable, no matter their merit. We hope the UC realizes the gravity of its error and makes amends by inviting Summers back. We know he’s worth listening to, even if one disagrees with...