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‘Molto, Signora’: Or, How I Read Winckelmann Under the Tuscan Sun  Aug. 29

Fleur LaDouleur considers the unlikely lessons of her summer in Italy. more

Rankings Are Useful — But Go Beyond ‘U.S. News’  Aug. 28

Richard Vedder, who crafted Forbes’s new college rating scheme, defends such systems and compares the magazine’s approach and results to those of U.S. News. more

RateMyRankings: Ridiculous!  Aug. 28

Forbes portrays its new college rankings as an outcomes-oriented alternative to U.S. News. But the outcomes it chooses — including Ratemyprofessors.com — make it seem like a parody, Patricia McGuire writes. more

The End of the End of the End of History?  Aug. 27

The conflict between Russia and Georgia was a turning point of some kind. Scott McLemee wonders what’s the big idea.... more

Why Doesn’t Plagiarism Matter?  Aug. 26

If sex scandals take people off of short lists for vice presidential nominations, writes Jonathan Beecher Field, so should a pattern of copying the work of others. more

Teaching Abroad With Obama  Aug. 25

Helen Solterer, with Jean Delabroy, considers how one of the presidential candidate’s speeches was used by a French university. more

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