Brown faculty disagree on proposed interdisciplinary center

Image:  Brown University’s faculty delayed voting on a proposed Philosophy, Politics and Economics Center this month over questions about the unit’s purpose. Proponents of the center see an opportunity for scholars to do interdisciplinary work on urgent social issues with colleagues who don’t necessarily share their political beliefs. But critics of the proposal worry that the center risks becoming an ideological island on campus, that it will accept funding from sources some find...