Exposing the University of Michigan’s Violence Against Chinese Scholars
Megan Russell for Codepink On Friday night, CODEPINK and the local University of Michigan community gathered to hold a vigil in honor of UM researcher Dr. Danhao Wan on the…
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From Campus To Bank Account: The Expanding War On Free Speech
From campus arrests to banking shutdowns, dissent is no longer debated—it’s punished. Joshua Scheer The crackdown on dissent in the United States is no longer abstract—it’s operational. What was once…
From BBC to ICE Detention: The Arrest of Yousof Azizi and the Collapse of “Free Speech”
Iranian academic and media commentator faces deportation as supporters warn of political retaliation against anti-war voices Joshua Scheer Inspired by the growing campaign to free Yousof Azizi, I looked deeper…
Free Yousof Azizi!
By The Yousof Azizi Defense Committee, Popular Resistance Yousof Azizi, a final-year PhD student in public policy at the University of Virginia, was arrested on the morning of Tuesday, April…
Palestinian Students Are Fighting For Their Right To Education
Ashley Ver Beek for Waging Nonviolence As the Israeli occupation targets academic institutions, Palestinian students resist scholasticide. While calling for tangible international solidarity. The scenic campus of Birzeit University sits…
How Corporatism Paved the Way For The MAGAcademy Takeover of Higher Education
How Corporatism Paved the Way for the Hostile Takeover of Higher Ed Nolan Higdon Note: The following is an excerpt from the book MAGAcademy. By purchasing the book through Project…
US-Israeli Strikes on Iran’s Universities Signal Higher Ed No Longer Off-Limits
Even if the ceasefire holds and the war comes to an end, Iran’s academia will bear great costs and long-term impacts. Kourosh Ziabari for Truthout hroughout their war on Iran,…
Philadelphia’s Abolition School Taps The ‘radical Potential’ Of Political Education
Officially known as the W.E.B. Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction, the organization grounds local organizers in historical knowledge, theory, and rigorous analysis Adryan Corcione Prism Political education plays a…
Academic Freedom May Be Flourishing at America’s Best Liberal Arts Colleges, But They Are Still in Danger of Losing Their Distinctiveness
Austin Sarat ScheerPost In late January, Professor Ian Bogost published a very flattering account of four premier liberal arts colleges: Amherst (where I teach), Davidson, Smith, and Vassar. As he…
The Palestine Exception: Why Academic Freedom Stops Here
A tenured professor can spend decades building a career, win awards, earn lifetime recognition, and still be discarded the moment political speech crosses an invisible line. That is what happened…
Silencing Student Reporters Threatens Public’s Right to Know
Jim Rodenbush for Project Censored I faced a decision last October that would dramatically change my professional and personal life. I could enforce a directive from Indiana University administrators to…
A Court Ordered Trump’s Department of Education to Roll Back Its Anti-DEI Efforts. Why haven’t Universities Reversed Course?
Last month, the department conceded that it could not make universities’ race-conscious efforts illegal, but universities nationwide have yet to reinstate their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts Meghnad Bose and…
Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own
Zachary Levenson for Truthout Imagine the following scenario: You’re teaching Introduction to Sociology at a community college in Florida, and today, you’re trying to explain the well-documented pay gap between…
Private Eyes on Campus: The New Era of Student Monitoring and Suppression
Posted by Joshua Scheer A few weeks ago we had a chance to speak with Hannah Epstein. Sadly, as the American empire descends into its last gasps, we have fallen…
America Faces a New “Sputnik” Moment, and Our Future Depends on Our Colleges and Universities
By Austin Sarat for ScheerPost It is hardly news that America’s colleges and universities are in serious trouble. Declining public confidence, politically motivated attacks, and the withdrawal of government funding…