Browsing: freedom

Verity Nevitt was just 21, a student living away from home for the first time, when she learned she and her twin sister, Lucy, were going…

Universities in England that fail to protect free speech could face fines of £500,000 or 2% of their income, and in some cases risk losing public…

I only play a historian on television, so I thought it would be useful to include some of my lively chats with real-life historians in this…

Iowa lawmakers created the center last year. Joe Hendrickson/Getty Images The Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa hosted an opening event last December—but…

It was over beers on an autumn evening in Zurich in 2024 that a group of journalists with an independent Swiss research collective began to discuss…

Before Clark Kerr was president of the University of California from 1958 to 1967, he was a faculty member working on a committee to evaluate colleagues…

The west is in the midst of the most serious assault on free speech and academic freedom since the heyday of McCarthyism seven decades ago. For…

The UNC system Board of Governors has now defined academic freedom in its policies. Ryan Herron/iStock/Getty Images The University of North Carolina Board of Governors voted…

Shivering and rain-drenched at the side of a pond in Cornwall, a huddle of people watched in hushed silence as a beaver took its first tentative…

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.This week, from 2018:…