A recent paper by Wallace and McIntyre, published in the October issue of Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, suggests social autonomy can have negative consequences. Specifically, “social ...

European university leaders gathered in Bologna, Italy, nearly 33 years ago to sign the Magna Charta Universitatum, a document asserting fundamental values of autonomy and academic freedom. In the ...

“Man is, ergo God must be.…” This concise formulation expresses succinctly the classical mode of attaining natural knowledge of God. Beginning with the mediate phenomenon of the world, Thomas Aquinas ...

Strolling down the streets of Pescocostanzo, in the heart of the Majella National Park, in the province of L’Aquila (Italy), I noticed the following engraving: “Sui domina” (self-possessed). It is the ...

Like many of you, I’m approaching the fall semester with dread. Not the usual first-day-of-classes jitters, but a deeper concern about whether we’ll see the same kinds of conflicts that disrupted our ...

In an open letter to President Erdoğan, Council of Higher Education head Prof. Özvar and Boğaziçi University’s appointed rector Naci İnci, Scholars at Risk has called for “immediate steps to safeguard ...

We decided to write Abortion and Reproductive Justice in 2018. Just two years into Trump’s first presidency, the opposition to reproductive health, rights, and justice was already emboldened, and ...

M ost recent public conversations about academic freedom focus narrowly on speech. That makes some sense, given the alarming trend in which state legislatures across the country have proposed banning ...