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Plan to cut most standalone positions in favour of shorter fellowships will hurt international recruitment, critics say

Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited

One of the greatest honors of my career has been receiving the inaugural 2022 Edwin Meese III Originalism Award. My… The post The 2025 Edwin Meese III Originalism Lecture: "Originalism, the Administrative State, and the Clash of Political Theories" by Joel Alicea appeared first on Reason.com.

A year-long series of events marks 80 years since admission of Marjory Stephenson and Kathleen Lonsdale in 1945

Trump wants to be known as a man of peace — no matter who he has to kill

Maria Ressa says rules-based order ‘can perhaps still exist’ but social media is being used to undermine democracy around the world

Last year, South Korea made headlines around the world for two reasons. The first was writer Han Kang’s celebrated Nobel prize for literature win in October; the second was far less positive. Late in the evening of December 3 2024, the country’s President Yoon Suk Yeol unexpectedly declared martial law…

An American biochemist whose research has helped scientists make inroads on treating coronavirus and HIV has won this year’s Wolf Prize, a major Israeli award in the arts and sciences

Yunus is facing a huge security challenge as some police refuse to return to their posts, gang crime is rife and tensions simmer with the country’s army chief

A mathematician who specialises in quantifying uncertainty has won a €2 million funding award from the Italian government