Humanities
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Socrates would be pleased: With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation
A host of philosophy-themed prison education programs have cropped up in recent years, many of them in the context of higher education.
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Judge weighs whether Trump violated federal law by deploying National Guard to LA
Dana Frank, Research Professor and Professor Emerita of History at UC Santa Cruz, was interviewed in an NBC report on state and federal governments giving their final arguments over the legality of President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Southern California.
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Guest commentary: Panetta must act amid humanitarian crisis in Gaza
In a guest commentary, Christine Hong and Sean Malloy, professors at UC Santa Cruz and UC Merced respectively, argue that Rep. Jimmy Panetta has failed to demonstrate any meaningful commitment to the Palestinian residents of his district.