After a spring marked by controversies involving free speech rights, the University of California, Berkeley has blocked a student-led effort to host popular conservative author Ben Shapiro for a ...

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence,” the great economist John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” ...

Since well before MOOCs emerged, the University of California at Berkeley has been giving away recordings of its lectures on YouTube and iTunesU. In fact, Berkeley has become one of the most-generous ...