To call something an “academic question” is, for most people, a put-down. But to anyone at a university, it’s a redundancy. A scholar spends a lifetime exploring difficult questions. In the classroom, ...

In a post for Prospect, Christopher Fear asks why academic political theory is so remote from political practice. He concludes that it’s because political theorists devote themselves to eternal ...

For faculty members, academic freedom attaches to research and teaching. The Laws of the Regents broadly define academic freedom as the “freedom to study, learn, and conduct scholarship and creative ...

When my daughters were in high school, they both played on various teams. Soccer, cross-country running, cross-country skiing and tennis. Games and tournaments often started in the late afternoon.

Welcome to a new series, “The Public Writing Life,” about how to write for a popular audience (and get paid for it) when you are part of the academy. There’s plenty of good writing advice out there, ...