scholarly autonomy Archives

Essays

Warning Signs: Authoritarian Constraints on Scientific Inquiry in the Recent Past

James T. Andrews | June 13, 2017

Finding a New Equilibrium: Accountability, Autonomy, and the National Science Foundation

Cora Marrett | October 4, 2016

Cracks in the Ivory Tower: A Note on Prewitt’s Indirect Consequentialism

Richard A. Shweder | September 20, 2016

Corporate Social Science and the Loss of Curiosity

Peter J. Taylor | August 2, 2016

A Social Science of the Infamous

Ira Katznelson | May 3, 2016

Can Social Science Matter?

Kenneth Prewitt | May 3, 2016

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