This article is more than 10 years old. Folta is not the best casting choice for the part of “besieged scientist fends off bullying press from FOIA attack.” Frankly, if he’s got it together enough to ...

Intellectual freedom is now—and will likely always be—a necessary topic for librarians to examine. If every book has its reader, most books will also have a challenger. In addition to considering ...

Erin Berman talks about privacy. If the purpose of Intellectual Freedom 101, held Friday afternoon, was to get the conference off to a lively start, it was successful. The fast-paced, one-hour panel ...

Sitting in a meeting with Penguin Random House CEO Nihar Malaviya in 2023, Dan Novack knew he had to make a choice. States across the country were passing laws intended to remove titles from school ...

The "Reforming Universities Summit," the Center for Intellectual Freedom's two-day inaugural event at the Old Capital Museum, will help to bring back traditional values of education, freedom, civic ...

Former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad spoke Tuesday at a subcommittee meeting in support of legislation that would launch a “school of intellectual freedom” at the University of Iowa, countering critics who ...

With censorship and book bans still on the rise, defending intellectual freedom remains vital. And one powerful way to defend intellectual Freedom is is to honor those who fight for it. In that spirit ...

A new legislative bill has been filed in the Iowa House to establish a School of Intellectual Freedom within the University of Iowa's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The bill, called the "School ...

The Board of Regents finalized the advisory board for the newly established University of Iowa Center for Intellectual Freedom on Sept. 17. Described as a center aiming to promote intellectual ...

THEIR PERFORMANCE. NEW AT SIX THE IOWA BOARD OF REGENTS HAS APPROVED THE ADVISORY COUNCIL, LEADING THE SEARCH FOR THE LEADER OF THE NEW CENTER OF INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM. THERE ARE 26 PEOPLE UP FOR A ...

One theory as to why the Industrial Revolution started in Europe was its political fragmentation. There was constant competition between the best and the brightest. Economic historian Joel Mokyr ...

An "intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity" assessment is now being distributed to public university and college campuses in Florida. The questionnaire to survey students and faculty was ...