On June 29, the New York Times published an essay entitled “I’ve Picked My Job Over My Kids,” in which lawyer and law professor Lara Bazelon wrote movingly about her professional life, how much personal satisfaction she derives from it, and how it gives meaning to her days. In
Immigration restrictions, like tariffs and other restrictions on trade, affect the activities of citizens above all.
As the world’s most powerful fascist regime, one would expect China to encounter great difficulties spreading its influence on liberal Australian university campuses, the student bodies of which are hypersensitive to right-wing teaching or teachers.
NATO provided an institutional framework that enabled the signatories of the treaty to respond collectively, thereby pooling the risk.
In the case of the U.S., much law and policy in higher education is a state matter and for that reason chapters make even more sense.
Like any significant historical event, this gender revolution has multiple causes.
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It is time for conservatism to fully embrace a prudential, restrained approach to foreign policy.
National conservatives are much more willing to question the efficacy and desirability of markets in allocating a nation’s resources.
Psychological scientists are quick to spot unwarranted causal inferences in others' research — but blind to the same errors in their own, possibly driven by ideological commitments and self-interest.
Global warming is a tragedy of the commons, in which logical agents act in ways that run counter to the longterm interests of the group.
The rise of social media means that a limited number of academics, industry bodies or professional groups can promote almost any agenda, however obtuse, gain slightly wider support online, and create the appearance of significant authoritative status.
The theory of intersectionality, now widely embraced by self-described feminist activists, maintains that non-whites, women, and LGBT individuals face systemic oppression whose scope increases according to the number of minority statuses a person holds.
William Edwards frames the quarrel as an argument between thinkers who believe in free will
To a modern research scientist, all of this will seem like common sense, and such principles now are taught even in some undergraduate courses.