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  • Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education

    by Larry Alexander, Jonathan Haidt, Cristine H. Legare, Heather MacDonald, Azhar Majeed, Harvey C. Mansfield, Norma Thompson, James R. Stoner Jr., Ulrich Baer, David M. Buss0, Paul Carrese1, Daniel Cullen3, Donald Alexander Downs4, Joshua M. Dunn5, Steven F. Hayward6, James M. Manley7, Carol McNamara8, Laura Beth Nielsen0, Robert C. Post1, Geoffrey R. Stone2, Eugene Volokh3 ...
    Series series Political Theory for Today
    The essays in Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education reflect diverse perspectives on one of the most pressing issues in higher education--the controversies over freedom of speech and its relation to intellectual diversity. Does the First Amendment apply on campuses and do its principles clarify or obscure the issues surrounding campus speech? What, after all, is the basis for ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Value and Limits of Academic Speech

    Philosophical, Political, and Legal Perspectives

    Edited by Donald Alexander Downs, Chris W. Surprenant ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    Free speech has been a historically volatile issue in higher education. In recent years, however, there has been a surge of progressive censorship on campus. This wave of censorship has been characterized by the explosive growth of such policies as "trigger warnings" for course materials; "safe spaces" where students are protected from speech they consider harmful or distressing; "micro-aggression ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Service as Mandate

    How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015

    by Alan I Marcus, Amy Sue Bix, Gwen Kay, Valerie Grim, Anne B. Effland, David L. Harmon, Donald Alexander Downs, Erinn McComb, Stephanie Statz, Melissa Walker0, Robert C. McMath1, R. Douglas Hurt2, Mr. Hamilton Cravens3 ...
    Series Book 2 - NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
    Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America’s land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate, Alan I Marcus’s second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these universities have adapted to meet the challenges of the past sixty-five years and how, having done so, ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Arms and the University

    Military Presence and the Civic Education of Non-Military Students

    by Donald Alexander Downs, Ilia Murtazashvili ...
    Alienation between the U.S. military and society has grown in recent decades. Such alienation is unhealthy, as it threatens both sufficient civilian control of the military and the long-standing ideal of the 'citizen soldier'. Nowhere is this issue more predominant than at many major universities, which began turning their backs on the military during the chaotic years of the Vietnam War. Arms and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • Science as Service

    Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930

    by Alan I Marcus, Nathan M. Sorber, Micah Rueber, Debra A. Reid, Robert B. Fairbanks, Richard F. Hirsh, Bruce E. Seely, Dr. Roger L. Geiger, Dr. Mark R. Finlay, Dr. Paul K. Nienkamp, Ph.D.0, Dr. Sara E. Morris1 ...
    Series Book 1 - NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
    Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded account of the successes and set-backs of these institutions during the first sixty-five years of ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Why Liberalism Failed

    by Patrick J. Deneen ...
    Series series Politics and Culture
    Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded?Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism, communism, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism’s proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Legalizing Misandry

    From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination against Men

    by Paul Nathanson, Katherine Young ...
    Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young believe that this reveals a shift in the United States and Canada to a worldview based on ideological feminism, which presents all issues from the point of view of women and, in the process, explicitly or implicitly attacks men as a class. They argue that ideological feminism is silently reshaping law, public policy, education, and journalism. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Age of Responsibility

    by Yascha Mounk ...
    Yascha Mounk shows why a focus on personal responsibility is wrong and counterproductive: it distracts us from the larger economic forces determining aggregate outcomes, ignores what we owe fellow citizens regardless of their choices, and blinds us to key values such as the desire to live in a society of equals. In this book he proposes a remedy. ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • A Larger Sense of Purpose

    Higher Education and Society

    by Harold T. Shapiro ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    Universities were once largely insular institutions whose purview extended no further than the campus gates. Not anymore. Today's universities have evolved into multifaceted organizations with complex connections to government, business, and the community. This thought-provoking book by Harold Shapiro, former president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan, and Chairman of ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • What’s Happened To The University?

    A sociological exploration of its infantilisation

    by Frank Furedi ...
    The radical transformation that universities are undergoing today is no less far-reaching than the upheavals that it experienced in the 1960s. However today, when almost 50 per cent of young people participate in higher education, what occurs in universities matters directly to the whole of society.On both sides of the Atlantic curious and disturbing events on campuses has become a matter of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Hate Speech Law

    A Philosophical Examination

    by Alex Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    Hate speech law can be found throughout the world. But it is also the subject of numerous principled arguments, both for and against. These principles invoke a host of morally relevant features (e.g., liberty, health, autonomy, security, non-subordination, the absence of oppression, human dignity, the discovery of truth, the acquisition of knowledge, self-realization, human excellence, civic ... Read more

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  • In the Name of Hate

    Understanding Hate Crimes

    by Barbara Perry ...
    In The Name of Hate is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory of hate crimes, arguing for an expansion of the legal definitions that most states in the U.S. hold. Barbara Perry provides an historical understanding of hate crimes and provocatively argues that hate crimes are not an aberration of current society, but rather a by-product of a society still grappling with inequality, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD