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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Brazilian society is going through a period of extreme political polarization. Obviously, political polarization is not an uncommon phenomenon at the moment. However, a climate of war, which in many ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new report by The Economist Intelligence Unit shows more than 80% of executives now feel that technology autonomy is critical to boosting business performance. In fact, companies with high profit ...

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 ...

On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. The document declared the 13 colonies an independent nation from Great Britain. Though the Revolutionary War ...