Mark Mercer – Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship

Articles in this Issue

Rescuing the University

Issue #96 / November 2023

Indigenizing Science

Issue #95 / April 2023

Swear Allegiance to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion or Don’t Get Hired

Issue #94 / January 2023

Civility as a Refuge for Academic Philistinism

Issue #93 / September 2022

Shaking One’s Fist at Clouds

Issue #92 / April 2022

Is Informality Simply Too Dangerous?

Issue #89 / September 2021

Discipline and Punish

Issue #88 / April 2021

Constitutional Freedoms and the Universities

Issue #87 / January 2021

Race-Based Restrictions From An Academic Perspective

Issue #86 / September 2020

The Value of Study for Its Own Sake

Issue #85 / April 2020

Academic Philistinism

Issue #84 / January 2020

In Defence of the Ivory Tower

Issue #83 / September 2019

Hate-Speech and Universities

Issue #82 / April 2019

The Academic Irrelevance Of Lived Experience

Issue #81 / January 2019

Honest Rudeness Or Insincere Civility?

Issue #80 / September 2018

Panel Discussion Canceled at McMaster University

Issue #79 / April 2018

Reasons For Pessimism

Issue #77 / September 2017

Knowledge And The University

Issue #76 / April 2017

Pseudo-Science And Academic Freedom

Issue #75 / January 2017

Preferential Hiring As A Response To Narrow Academic Tastes

Issue #74 / September 2016

Academic Freedom And The Civil Liberties

Issue #73 / April 2016

UBC’s Dangerous Intention To Create An Academic Freedom Officer

Issue #72 / January 2016

On What Grounds Should Academic Decisions Be Made?

Issue #71 / September 2015

Two ways of thinking about academic freedom

Issue #69 / January 2015

Freedom of expression and academic freedom: A response to Indira Samarasekera

Issue #68 / September 2014

York University case is not about rights

Issue #66 / January 2014

What would Socrates do?

Issue #65 / September 2013

Liberal education requires freedom of expression

Issue #63 / January 2013

Education Or Re-Education

Issue #61 / April 2012

The University Of Regina Bucks The Trend And Stands Up For Freedom Of Expression

Issue #59 / September 2011

Making Saint Mary’s Safe For Expression And Discussion

Issue #58 / April 2011

Choose Which Kind Of University You Want

Issue #55 / April 2010

Saint Mary’s University Disrupted By Protesters

Issue #53 / September 2009

Mark Mercer Takes The Fight For Free Speech To The New York Review Of Books

Issue #50 / September 2008

Petitions And Academic Freedom

Issue #47 / September 2007

Report On The Peter March Affair At Saint Mary’s University

Issue #44 / September 2006