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A new poem by Laurence Musgrove on writing conferences with students.

Sex! Death! Race and class and politics! Scott McLemee rounds up forthcoming university press books sure to start an argument.

A successful academic shares her story of being the victim of domestic abuse.

The law and the logic on which colleges have relied are both becoming harder to defend, writes Stephen T. Asma.

Whatever one thinks of current forms of affirmative action, it's time to focus more on economics, writes Matthew Gaertner.

Five professors in the field answer criticism that they say is based on an out-of-date idea about what goes on in their classrooms.

The Supreme Court's decision on gay marriage illustrates the discipline's centrality to understanding of crucial issues today, writes Steven Mintz.