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Audra J. Wolfe

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What Was the “Paradigm Shift”?

When Thomas Kuhn coined the term, he wasn’t referring simply to “out of the box” thinking.

by Audra J. Wolfe via The New Republic on May 22, 2024

Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science

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Sidney Hook speaking at the opening session of the Congress for Cultural Freedom in Berlin on June 26, 1950.

Is Science Political?

Many take the separation between science and politics for granted, but this view of science has its own political origins.

by Michael D. Gordin via Boston Review on August 20, 2019

Children in a classroom in the 1950s.

How the Cold War Defined Scientific Freedom

The idea that liberal democracies shielded science from politics was always flawed.

by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on March 25, 2019

Science’s Freedom Fighters

Why do Americans get so worked up by the basic assertion that all science is political?

by W. Patrick McCray via Los Angeles Review of Books on November 18, 2018

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