What has become of academic discourse? As a regular reader of The Chronicle, my attention has been pulled away from the content of the articles to the comment sections which follow. Unfortunately, the ...

A lawsuit recently filed by scientists against six major academic journal publishers shines a spotlight on a long-standing issue that echoes the broader problems in academia itself: an excessive ...

The year 2025 begins with many uncertainties about the fate of TikTok. The brief ban and the possibility of another one have spotlighted concerns about national security, digital freedom, the gig ...

The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an advocacy article that attacks academic freedom and urges stifling contentious campus debates. Specifically, Evan Mullen, Eric J. Topol, and ...

On March 8, 2025, US authorities arrested Palestinian Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-born student activist and key mediator in Columbia University’s pro-Hamas protests, after ICE agents raided his home. The ...

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The following is a guest contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. For information on how to submit a piece to the Opinion section, click here. In thinking about the complex problem of ...

The speech by Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir in Parliament on Oct 24, highlighting the need to review the Statutory Bodies (Discipline and Surcharge) Act 2000 (Act 605), is ...