Recent advances in human embryo gene editing raise more questions
Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long alarmed bioethicists
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Mark Mazower’s On Antisemitism: A Word in History - Clear, comprehensive and nuanced
A book that can contribute to honest discussions that are desperately needed in a new age of racism, war and genocide
Commission of inquiry into abuse in day and boarding schools must become truly survivor-centred
Rite & Reason: Terms of reference should change and include restorative justice as requested by so many
Attention, men: Books are sexy, but staring into a phone is not
Men are reading less these days, proving that what is rare is wonderful
The Encampments director Kei Pritsker: ‘The students risked a lot to stand with the people of Gaza. That’s tremendous’
Documenting the protests at Columbia University in solidarity with Palestinians, Pritsker did not think he would end up making a film
The Encampments review: Taut, disciplined documentary about Palestine protests at Columbia University
Kei Pritsker and Michael Workman’s film may win over few hostile to the college occupations, but it offers an important record of how the campaign developed
What Trump is doing to US universities is not as bad as the McCarthyite witch trials – it’s worse
No international student will want to study in the US. Who would want to bet their future education on the chance that the American courts will restrain Trump?
If you want to see how democracies cede to autocracies, watch as US universities bend to Trump
If a rich and famous institution such as Columbia doesn’t stand up for itself, what chance have millions of ordinary people?
In Trump’s America, it can be dangerous to criticise the president’s friends
Worldview: The administration has rescinded the legal status of close to 1,000 international university students since mid-March
Trump’s attacks on universities create a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Ireland and Europe
The US benefited enormously from the migration of European scientists and scholars after the second World War. There is no better time to reverse the trend
Harvard University fights to withstand Donald Trump’s all-out assault on higher education
Attacks on elite US universities are at centre of White House’s culture war
Harvard’s decision to resist Trump is ‘of momentous significance’
In the administration’s effort to break what it sees as liberalism’s hold on higher education, the institution is big game
US immigration judge rules Palestinian Columbia student Khalil can be deported
USA-TRUMP/COLUMBIA (UPDATE 3, PIX):UPDATE 3-US immigration judge rules Palestinian Columbia student Khalil can be deported
How Donald Trump is using fear, obscure laws and immigration agents to crack down on dissent
The arrest of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who is a legal US resident, will have a chilling effect
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