Richard L. Hudson
@rlhudson.bsky.social
International science policy journalist. Co-founder of Brussels-based sciencebusiness.net news service, former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal Europe. A campaigner for global science cooperation.
As a journalist, I have witnessed the decline of academic freedom in Hungary, Russia, China, Turkey and elsewhere. Now, in my native country, the US. This op-ed is an important reminder that an attack against freedom in one country endangers freedom eveerywhere.
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Viewpoint: Trump’s attack on US universities is an attack on all universities
This year marks the 80th anniversary of one of the most influential science policy papers ever published: “Science: the Endless Frontier,” a report by presidential advisor Vannevar Bush that served as...
sciencebusiness.net
April 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
As a journalist, I have witnessed the decline of academic freedom in Hungary, Russia, China, Turkey and elsewhere. Now, in my native country, the US. This op-ed is an important reminder that an attack against freedom in one country endangers freedom eveerywhere.
sciencebusiness.net/internationa...
sciencebusiness.net/internationa...
After 38 years in Europe, I have returned to my home country to find American science in grave jeopardy. Someone must step up as the new leader in global science cooperation - and that can be Europe, as this opinion piece explains. Ideas welcome. sciencebusiness.net/viewpoint/in...
Viewpoint: as the US sinks, Europe must rise for global science
If you were wondering what Trump means for global science, the French embassy here in Washington DC had something worth seeing this week. On stage at the embassy’s auditorium on February 24, Franco-Am...
sciencebusiness.net
February 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
After 38 years in Europe, I have returned to my home country to find American science in grave jeopardy. Someone must step up as the new leader in global science cooperation - and that can be Europe, as this opinion piece explains. Ideas welcome. sciencebusiness.net/viewpoint/in...