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In an opinion piece for the Washington Post, Lynne Chandler Garcia noted that the US was founded on a “duality” between “liberalism and equal rights” on one hand, and “inequality, inegalitarianism, and second-class citizenship” on the other. “It [critical race theory] helps students identify the structural racism and inequality that …

Anming Hu is a Chinese-born scientist, who moved with his family to Canada a decade ago and became a naturalized Canadian citizen. An internationally recognized expert in nanomanufacturing, he worked at the University of Tennessee (UT) and was involved in two engineering projects for NASA. By taking grants from the …

Anderson, an African-American studies professor at Emory University in Atlanta, is promoting her new book, which provides critical race theorists the dual benefits of vilifying the founding fathers and telling us that the gun rights enshrined in our Constitution were not about individual liberty but – you guessed it – …

It’s an alarming sign of the times that the first foray into public debate of the UK’s new head of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has been to defend an individual’s right to think what they like without fear of being punished for those thoughts. At the centre …

Using what he sees as an example of an equitable game, in his paper “From Mario Kart to pro-poor environmental governance,” Bell argues in favor of the so-called rubber-band effect, in which the gameplay is regulated through the distribution of power-ups of varying potency.  Making the case for more effective …

William Lavell’s lawsuit against Camden County College was filed on Friday in US District Court in Camden, New Jersey. The 66-year-old chemistry professor alleged that after obtaining payroll data under the state’s open records law, he found “stark racial disparities” between his pay and the salaries of two black engineering …

The BBC wrote a lengthy piece blasting Edinburgh University Professor Paul McKeigue, a member of a group of academics called the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media (WGSPM). The group seeks to expose Western efforts to shield from public scrutiny a long-term campaign to destabilize and topple the Syrian …

Carl Hart, who chairs the psychology department at the prestigious Ivy League university, provided some remarkable personal anecdotes about recreational drug use in his new book, ‘Drug Use for Grown-ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear’. The 54-year-old father of three revealed that he regularly snorts small amounts of …

The ‘phase one’ trade deal “was a temporary stopgap measure to get across a period of time; that time has gone, and a new regime is in power in the United States,” says Professor Richard Wolff. He tells Boom Bust that “Everything now depends on what initiatives the Biden administration …

The controversy erupted earlier this month when Robert Schuyler used the gesture during the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA).  It happened after the event moderator gave Schuyler permission to interrupt another speaker only for the other speaker, Liz Quinlan, to deem his question, which was about …