Confronting Racism at University of Missouri

Krishnadev Calamur | Senior editor, The Atlantic Student Protests Lead to Resignations of the President & Chancellor at University of Missouri Student protests brought about the sudden resignation of the President and Chancellor at the University of Missouri on...

Piketty Against Market Fundamentalism

Marshall Steinbaum | Research Economist, Washington Center for Equitable Growth Free Market Dogmatism Still Going Strong at the University of Chicago Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the 21st Century recently visited the University of Chicago’s Economics...

Mirage of Value-Free Social Science

Fred Block | Research professor at U.C. Davis The Center for Engaged Scholarship Challenges the View that Social Science Should be Value-Free Advocates of value-free science insist that researchers need to put aside all of their own preferences and prejudices and...

Here We Go Again…

Scott Jaschik | Editor and one of three founders of Inside Higher Ed Supreme Court to Hear Case Impacting Race Consideration in University Admissions The Supreme Court will hear a Texas case in December that could end any consideration of race in university...

Do We Need Affirmative Action for Conservatives?

Fred Block | Research professor of sociology at U.C. Davis An Argument on Academia’s Rejection of Diversity Every once in a while, conservatives find it useful to employ the same intellectual logics that they have relentlessly mocked when used by their...

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