The American Anthropological Association is outraged. A little known but illuminating report on the state of scholarship in the humanities and humanistic social sciences, commissioned by the chancellors of Vanderbilt University and Washington University in St. Louis, warns that “every field” the authors studied shows “a deterioration in scholarly standards fueled by the substitution of […]

On July 10, Turkey signed a memorandum of understanding with the illegal administration of Northern Cyprus for a 97-kilometer bidirectional submarine gas pipeline. The project will run from Turkey’s southern coast near Alanya to the Teknecik power station outside Kyrenia. Two parallel 22-inch lines will initially carry natural gas from Turkey to power plants in […]

Squatters have taken over a dead University of California, Berkeley, professor’s home, and the state is making it impossible for his family to kick them out. Thanks to the Golden State’s policy of legalized property theft, Przemyslaw Jeziorski’s family is fighting a losing battle in the courts. Jeziorski, who was murdered last year, used to […]

Over the course of the last few days, the world’s eyes have been fixed on the Strait of Hormuz. The United States has declared it open for business, while recent reports indicate Iran has instructed its Houthi allies to intervene if U.S. strikes hit Iran’s infrastructure.  Iran’s concerns that it may be further weakened by […]