VIDEO: Is Palestine the Exception to Free Speech Rights in the U.S.?

Staff / Truthdig Oct 3, 2015 University campuses are the front line of Palestinian human rights advocacy in the United States, but a new study documents hundreds of cases in which students and scholars have been punished for expressing themselves. Watch the testimony of some of those who have dared to speak out, as they describe the backlash they've faced. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

VIDEO: Here’s What Happened When Cynthia McKinney Tried to Use WikiLeaks Info in Her Dissertation

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Sep 10, 2015 So, former U.S. Representative and current Green Party politician Cynthia McKinney recently accomplished the impressive feat of earning her Ph.D. at Antioch University. So far, so good. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

64% of Psychology Experiments Fail Replication Test

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 31, 2015 An international team of experts found that of 100 studies published in top-ranking journals in 2008, the results of just 25 percent of social psychology experiments and half of cognitive studies could be replicated in independent trials. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

What’s the Point of a Professor?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 10, 2015 When he was a student in the early 1980s, Emory University English professor Mark Bauerlein and his peers spoke with their professors regularly and at length, knowing “that these moments were the heart of liberal education.” Today, polls show, one-third of students never do so. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Campus Administrators Invoke ‘Civility’ to Silence Critical Speech

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 18, 2015 University administrators are successfully rallying around the value of “civility” in discourse as a means of silencing and getting rid of professors deemed politically troublesome. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Unite and Benefit the Nation With Your Knowledge, Academics!

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 28, 2014 Humanitarian and former independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader bemoans the failure of tenured American social science professors to join together and provide an informed and authoritative strategy for progressive reform in the United States. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

‘We Never Managed to Relax’ After World War II (Parts 4 and 5)

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 31, 2014 In the fourth and fifth installments of their long conversation on corporate capitalism and American democracy, Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges and political philosopher Sheldon Wolin discuss the concept of "inverted totalitarianism," Wolin's experience as a university professor and the expulsion of unorthodox academics in the postwar United States. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stanford Promises Not to Use Google Money for Privacy Research

Staff / Truthdig Sep 24, 2014 Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society has long received funding from Google, but a filing shows the university recently pledged to use the money only for non-privacy research. Academics say such promises are problematic. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

‘Gobbledygook’ Papers Flood Academia to Prove a Point

Staff / Truthdig Mar 1, 2014 Three MIT students set out to expose how much crud gets accepted to scientific conferences; Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni was swayed by so-called science to sign an anti-gay bill; meanwhile, Bitcoin may have some value beyond that of an online currency. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Are Students Dropping Out of College to Become Entrepreneurs?

Staff / Truthdig Feb 27, 2014 Universities are working hard to keep their students in the classroom rather than out starting their own business; private prisons receive tons of taxpayer dollars but can operate under secrecy; meanwhile, anti-terrorist agencies try to entrap activists to demonstrate that the policing organizations are needed. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

More Homophobia in Africa, This Week in Gambia

Staff / Truthdig Feb 19, 2014 Gambia's president calls gays "vermin" to be fought like malaria-carrying mosquitoes; demographics alone won't beat the tea party, contrary to Democrats' beliefs; meanwhile, journalist Glenn Greenwald laments the state of society and discusses his new media venture. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

What Does Math Have in Common With Art and Music?

Staff / Truthdig Feb 18, 2014 Neurobiological studies show that mathematical formulas stimulate the same parts of the brain as music and art do; a writer questions our surveillance nightmares; meanwhile, gay youth find solace on the Internet. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )