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The article is here; here’s the Introduction: The gravest contemporary threats to expressive freedom do not always take the form of statutes or criminal sanctions. Increasingly, they take the form of procurement decisions, grant terminations, security-clearance revocations, and regulatory designations—the discretionary…
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Editor’s note: the text that follows has been adapted, with permission of the authors, from “State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences,” a report submitted on 5 April, 2026 to Daniel Diermeier, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, and Andrew D. Martin, Chancellor of Washington University; and addressed to all “university chancellors and presidents who are concerned about the state of academic scholarship in the humanities.” The full list of authors appears in the credit information below.The idea that there is something amiss in the humanities and the social sciences, and that the problem has something to do…
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