Academia

Beijing is trying to shape the academic and political conversation.

How FP set out to change the world.

The world needs experts to engage with policy more than ever. Research shows international relations scholars are already up to the task.

Retaining the U.S. advantage needs funding, not xenophobia.

Ignoring the central role of race and colonialism in world affairs precludes an accurate understanding of the modern state system.

Universities can’t handle Confucius Institutes responsibly. The state should step in.

Meet the American philosopher who showed that Western politics could only move forward by first taking a step backward.

The problem isn’t too much democracy — it’s too little.

The new administration is looking to cut federal funding for arts and humanities education. It’s not cost savings; it’s an attack on reason itself.

Shakespeare may never have left England, but he became the most global writer who ever lived.

The case for teaching arts in the Digital Age.

Seven peer-reviewed strategies female faculty can use to climb the ladder of academic success.

A new report sheds light on punishing labor issues in the coffee sector, and on Brazil’s progressive efforts to protect farmworkers.

The top ten things junior faculty need to know — and why it should matter to the rest of us.

For development economists like me, Deaton was a revolutionary and a visionary.

A best defense columnist looks back at the National Defense University.

Remembering a generous mentor, a prodigious scholar, and a bold thinker who contemplated the bad decisions that could get us all killed.