John Hope Franklin

Drew Faust | President, Harvard University John Hope Franklin: Race and the Meaning of America Over a very long career, John Hope Franklin was an exemplary engaged scholar; he used the historian’s craft to challenge and overturn readings of U.S. history that denied or...

Wrong Kind of Engaged Scholar

Fred Block | Research professor of sociology at U.C. Davis Stunning Revelations Regarding American Psychological Association Leaders The discipline of psychology has been rocked by revelations that people in the leadership of the American Psychological Association...

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...

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