privacy – Scholar as Citizen

NYT Editorial and Other Coverage of Cronon Open Records Case

Yesterday was among the craziest of my entire life. The story traced in this blog of the Republican Party’s Open Records Law request for access to my emails has in the past twenty-four hours gone viral in a very big way so that this blog has received more than 2 million hits in the past … Continue reading “NYT Editorial and Other Coverage of Cronon Open Records Case”

Abusing Open Records to Attack Academic Freedom

A Tactic I Hope Republicans Will Rethink: Using the Open Records Law to Intimidate Critics Here’s the headline: the Wisconsin Republican Party has issued an Open Records Law request for access to my emails since January 1 in response to a blog entry I posted on March 15 concerning the role of the American Legislative … Continue reading “Abusing Open Records to Attack Academic Freedom”

Scholar as Citizen is a blogging counterpart of Bill Cronon's personal website where Bill reflects on the public practice of history and the ways in which academic scholarship in his chosen fields of history, geography, and environmental studies can offer useful perspectives on contemporary political debates. His goal is not just to offer particular historical and geographical insights into present-day discussions and controversies, but also to reflect on ways that scholarly methods and habits of mind can help us ask better questions and thereby offer constructive approaches for better understanding why current events unfold as they do.