My first contact with Leon Wieseltier was by letter. The year was 1977. Written on Balliol College, Oxford, letterhead stationery, the letter informed me that I was a force for superior culture in ...

For 75 years, since ALA Council first adopted the Library Bill of Rights in 1939, challenging censorship has been a core tenet of librarianship. The essays in the 2014 edition of Banned Books: ...

Like the last knights fighting a losing war, two Shanghai-based monthly magazines Shu Cheng (Book Town) and Wan Xiang (Panorama Monthly) have only recently published their first editions this year ...

How do the principles of intellectual freedom and open access intersect? That was the topic of the “Intellectual Freedom and Open Access: Working Toward a Common Goal?” panel discussion, sponsored by ...

Last February, an anonymous cohort of conservative writers, their bylines purloined from antiquity, started a group blog they described as the “first scholarly journal of radical #Trumpism.” Its title ...

Much of my education, such as it is, is owing to intellectual journalism. I first discovered the intellectual journals—Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, Sewanee Review, Dissent, Encounter, and others—in ...

MY first ‘hobbies’ were geography and ethnology; later came botany and zoölogy, then history and sociology. At the age of sixteen I began to study philosophy. I still remember the deep emotion which I ...

A healthy profit, to say nothing of simple self-support, is generally conceded to be far beyond the reach of today’s intellectual journals. They measure their success on another level—by the quality, ...

Chinese authorities are planning to implement a series of policy measures to introduce stronger intellectual property protection to the country's photovoltaic sector. Chinese enterprises are being ...

When the Polish authorities declared martial law in 1981, one third of the members of the Communist Party resigned. Members of the Artists’ Union, Writers’ Union, Journalists’ Union, and Architects’ ...

Coca-Cola is one of the more recognizable brands in the world. People consume its drinks, and its logo and branding percolate across television, print and billboards. The company has become ubiquitous ...