What has become of academic discourse? As a regular reader of The Chronicle, my attention has been pulled away from the content of the articles to the comment sections which follow. Unfortunately, the ...

A lawsuit recently filed by scientists against six major academic journal publishers shines a spotlight on a long-standing issue that echoes the broader problems in academia itself: an excessive ...

The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an advocacy article that attacks academic freedom and urges stifling contentious campus debates. Specifically, Evan Mullen, Eric J. Topol, and ...

The following is a guest contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. For information on how to submit a piece to the Opinion section, click here. In thinking about the complex problem of ...

The speech by Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir in Parliament on Oct 24, highlighting the need to review the Statutory Bodies (Discipline and Surcharge) Act 2000 (Act 605), is ...

Some recent restrictions placed on historical books, museum exhibits, and academic discourse have brought renewed attention to the Chinese Communist Party’s attempts to rewrite history, control the ...