T he Degradation of the Academic Dogma should be remembered for its title alone. But Robert Nisbet’s 1971 classic, in its 50th anniversary year, has much to teach us about the plight of the ...

As higher education faces an increasingly dire crisis of underfunding, we look at one of the consequences of this crisis: the growing threat to academic freedom. Academic and author Henry Reichman ...

Today on the Academic Minute: Mark Stelzner, assistant professor of economics at Connecticut College, explores how a short-term mind-set can have ample benefits—but at a cost. Learn more about the ...

Capitalism is a distinctive mode of economic organization, one that emerged relatively recently in human history. What distinguishes it, a new history argues, is not a reliance on coercion or ...

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