Category Archives: academia

Krugman on Cronon: Is academic freedom under attack?

Photo: U. Wisconsin Mascot/Jeff Miller So today is the first day of the rest of the New York Times paywall’s life. To celebrate, as someone who’s paying for the news there, I thought I’d provide a link you can follow … Continue reading

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Negative Book Review Prompts Libel Suit

This is troublesome. “Libel Case, Prompted by an Academic Book Review, Has Scholars Worried” via The Chronicle of Higher Education: [I]t came as a shock to journal editors to learn that one of their own, Joseph H.H. Weiler, editor of … Continue reading

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