Xenophobia and myopia knows no bounds, especially in America's highly politicized and ideological and indoctrinating universities. This has now manifested itself in AAUP's call for American universities to end or modify their sponsoring of Confucius Institutes in the U.S. In a statement, the AAUP said: Globalization has brought new challenges for the protection of academic … [Read more...] about US professors urge Western universities to end ties to China’s Confucius Institutes
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Rethinking the Freedom-Innovation Nexus
A lot has been discussed on this blog recently with regards to censorship, most of the discourse so far have revolved around the justice and standards of censorship. I want to take a different but related direction, and discuss yet another myth propagated by the democracy/freedom advocates - the notion that "free" societies are always more innovative than their "non-free" … [Read more...] about Rethinking the Freedom-Innovation Nexus