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Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
Letters
When Protest Becomes Intimidation To The Faculty Newsletter: “This is Not an Editorial” may not have been an editorial, and it certainly was not a pipe. However, to write “Instead,...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
First US Destination of MIT PhDs Over the Last Five Years
Source: Office of the Provost/Institutional Research...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
J-WAFS: From an Idea to a Program
Remarks by Professor John H. Lienhard V at the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) 22 May 2025 In 2005, I began...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
Reply to Prof. Hutchinson on Arguing Ad Hominem
Professor Hutchinson claims that the authors of the open letter to Professor Alex Byrne[1] commit the logical fallacy of arguing ad hominem. To commit this fallacy is to illicitly exploit...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1September/October 2025
Are Ad Hominem Attacks Legitimate Academic Freedom?*
The Latin phrase ad hominem meaning to the person describes approaches to argumentation, debate, discourse, and politics, that consist of personal attacks against the opposing speaker, rather than presenting arguments...
Vol. XXXVII No. 4March/April 2025
Upcoming FNL Editorial Board Elections
The annual faculty-wide, electronically based elections to the Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board will be held later this spring. In addition to the standard Institute faculty and emeritus faculty voting lists,...
Vol. XXXVII No. 4March/April 2025
To Our Readers
It has been brought to the attention of the Managing Editor and Co-Chairs of the Editorial Board that the erratum, “Setting the Record Straight,” made unwarranted claims. Among them was...
Vol. XXXVII No. 1September/October 2024
MIT’s New Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was formed in January 1915. John Dewey (professor of education and psychology at Columbia) was selected as its first president, and Arthur Lovejoy...
Vol. XXXVII No. 2November/December 2024
Go Fly A Kite: Academic Freedom and Student Protests
Recently, the Vice President for Research (VPR) reached out to me asking for the content of a project at the Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) involving Maersk, the world’s...