Art History Professor Christopher Reed offered his own unique conception of pleasure in the workplace by highlighting the social virtues of homosexual references in the television sitcom Will & Grace and a YouTube video titled “Shoes.”
Articles By: Bethany Stotts
Academic Freedom Without Limits
Largely avoiding discussions of students’ academic freedom, the panel argues that, especially among politicized subjects, professors’ academic freedom is threatened by student evaluations, scarce tenure, and even their own professional code of ethics.
A Genocidal Legacy
Human-rights activists would likely be displeased to hear that important massacres and purges may never make the history books as genocide because of political pressures during the 1948 U.N. Genocide Convention.
Deconstructing Universal (Conservative?) Values
In this uncertain time of global conflict, some professors believe it is time to teach students to reevaluate and deconstruct America’s real enemies—conservatives, science, democracy, and capitalism.
Deconstructing Universal (Conservative?) Values
In this uncertain time of global conflict, some professors believe it is time to teach students to reevaluate and deconstruct America’s real enemies—conservatives, science, democracy, and capitalism.
Activist Math
Why Everyday Mathematics won’t work on any given day.
Leaning Tower of PISA
A closer analysis of the 2006 PISA results reveals mixed results about the United States’ global competitiveness in science and math.
Condomnation
The condom has quickly come to symbolize health professionals’ push for “safe sex,” but Notre Dame Professor James P. Sterba suggests that the condom assume an important new role in the legal system: determining whether or not women have been raped.
Foreign Investment and Iran’s Future
The NIE timeline proposed for Iran to create enough highly-enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb suspiciously parallels predictions of an Iranian economic collapse.
Need to Know
Manufacturers are not required to notify the public of the use of GRAS substances, nor include them as ingredients in their products.