The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) joins the Public Policy & Advocacy Office (PPA) to strengthen ALA’s legal, policy, advocacy, and member support.

Each December, the Nobel ceremony transforms years—and often decades—of painstaking intellectual work into one of the world’s most concentrated displays of human achievement. Every December, while ...

A recent report on employment for people with intellectual disabilities shows that the lack of work opportunities is due to systemic barriers not individual limitations. KALW’s Rachel Longan has more.

Robert F. Barsky has received funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, The Guggenheim Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Fonds FCAR, and Vanderbilt University. Noam ...

“Iron sharpens iron,” as the proverb has it. This is nowhere truer than in the realm of ideas: we all need our initial beliefs or unreflective convictions to be refined. Serious reflection and study ...

From policy to practice: obstacles and opportunities for inclusive employment in California People with IDD want to ...

The passing of Professor Akin Mabogunje two years ago sparked widespread celebration of his contributions, primarily at the practice level. However, his equally profound intellectual legacy risks ...

In September 1974, at a protest in London, Stuart Hall delivered a speech in support of fellow Caribbean-born radical intellectual Walter Rodney. After being offered a professorship at the University ...

In 1967, the social critic Harold Cruse published “The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,” a magisterial and blistering assessment of Black thought leadership that remains startlingly relevant today.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Patty Limerick, a tenured University of Colorado Boulder professor and former director of the university’s Center of the American West, is suing CU for ...

LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Tom Stoppard, one of Britain's best-known playwrights, has died at the age of 88. Below are some tributes and reactions. "A dear friend who wore his genius lightly, he could ...