I can still vividly recall, some thirty-plus years later, my days at Columbia University as a Teaching Assistant (TA) in Anthropology. As a part-time job, it paid little–but nonetheless provided complete tuition-exemption for those of us still registered as full-time grad students. The lecture-hall was more like an auditorium: maybe 200 students taking a survey […]
You don't improve the world via witch hunts, blacklists, and cruelty.
Roger Pielke, Jr. is the most senior environmental studies prof at the University of Colorado in Boulder. His treatment sends a clear message to students & faculty alike: Deviate from the climate script and you will be cast out.
'This will be, for most Canadian faculty, the first if not the only real test of their integrity and dignity, and their purpose as scholars and intellectuals. It is absolutely essential that they not fail this test...'
Prominent artist promotes brave, big-hearted petition addressed to Singapore's Prime Minister.
Censorship by corporations is shutting down debate and obliterating parts of the historical record.
Is the public good guiding government decisions? It doesn't look like it.
Saskatchewan surgeon insists on informed consent prior to children receiving COVID-19 vaccines. Health authority fires him before an investigation has even begun.
Intellectual conformity leads nowhere good. Twitter has no business taking sides in any debate about how to treat any disease.
