Sokal Group: Academic News and Mischief
Ignore the ‘ivory tower’ clichés – universities are the innovation partners more Kiwi businesses need
Omid Aliasghar receives funding support for this research provided by Building New Zealand’s Innovation Capacity Spearhead within the Science for Technological Innovation National Science ...
The Ivory Tower Doesn’t Pay Taxes, but It Should Still Pay Up
Davarian Baldwin, author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower, argues that universities have an increasingly parasitic relationship to their host cities. “Meds and eds are the biggest low-wage ...
The Ivory Tower Doesn’t Pay Taxes, but They Should Still Pay Up
Davarian Baldwin, author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower, argues that universities have an increasingly parasitic relationship to their host cities. “Meds and eds are the biggest low-wage ...
“The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict”
In The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses, historian Stephen H. Norwood reveals how many American universities actively or passively helped to legitimize ...
Hungary seeks ‘international alliance’ of ‘patriotic forces’ to replace liberal ‘Ivory tower’
EXCLUSIVE — Hungarian leadership is “committed” to bolstering a global alliance of “patriotic” Western countries to replace the liberal mainstream in Brussels that they call ...
Bullying Accusations Resurface Against Meghan Markle From Sources You'd Least Expect
Being a celebrity or a British royal means enduring constant scrutiny and gossip. Being both ... Others see that haven as more of an ivory tower. The magazine paints the Sussexes as well-meaning ...
Ivory Tower: ISB study shows surge in fake news & deepfakes
The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...
EDITORIAL: Universal basic income fails another test
There’s a reason that ideas from the progressive ivory tower need to be tested. Often, the grandest theories fall apart when exposed to the rigors of the real world. Consider the case of ...
Can a Woke Harvard Still Be the Ivory Tower?
Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 is the Kenan Research Professor of Government at Harvard. When taking office, former University President Claudine Gay declared she was rejecting the old idea of academia ...
Ivory Tower: ISB study shows surge in fake news & deepfakes
The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...
Book Review: In 'You Didn't Hear This From Me,' Kelsey McKinney wants you to reconsider gossip
Kelsey McKinney bookends her new collection of essays on gossip with a word from Emily Dickinson: “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.” As the co-creator of the runaway hit podcast “Normal ...
A gossip guru ponders our love for scandalous hearsay
Until recently, every episode of “Normal Gossip” — the hit podcast created by culture writer Kelsey McKinney in 2022 — began the same way. McKinney would ask her guest about their ...
The Internet Runs on Gossip. That’s Making Us All Villains
Kelsey McKinney might be one of the most famous names in the gossip game. As the creator and ... that they were being watched. The central tower would be subject to periodic observation by the ...
Review: In ‘You Didn’t Hear This From Me,’ Kelsey McKinney wants you to reconsider gossip
YOU DIDN'T HEAR THIS FROM ME: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip. By Kelsey McKinney. Grand Central Publishing. 288 pages. $30. Kelsey McKinney bookends her new collection of essays on gossip with a ...
Book Review: In ‘You Didn’t Hear This From Me,’ Kelsey McKinney wants you to reconsider gossip
Kelsey McKinney bookends her new collection of essays on gossip with a word from Emily Dickinson: “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.” As the co-creator of the runaway hit podcast “Normal ...
EDITORIAL: Universal basic income fails another test
There’s a reason that ideas from the progressive ivory tower need to be tested. Often, the grandest theories fall apart when exposed to the rigors of the real world. Consider the case of ...
The Rule of Law; The Congo; The Bird Flu
The Ivory Tower is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV ...
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: Shameful and Dangerous Pardons
On January 6, 2021, a number of individuals tried to overturn the results of the election, in a most violent fashion, assaulting the Capitol and attacking police officers. Deaths and destruction ...
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: Trump Must Not Abandon the Battle Against ISIS
As the dust settles on the terrible terror attack in New Orleans, we learned it was a homegrown terrorist and not one who allegedly crossed our so-called “open ...
How Ivory Tower became Shenkman Hall
Shenkman said he chose Ivory Tower, which opened in 2004, to bear his name because it was worthy of a $5 million gift. “I thought it would give me the recognition I wanted. It was a large residence,” ...