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Objection!
There is more to Richard Posner's book on public intellectuals than the Top 100 list. Scott McLemee revisits it....
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Thoughts on the Fifth Estate
Oso Raro has a thought-provoking, if maddening, piece up - check it out - on the changing role of the...
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Learning to Raise Money -- as an Academic Administrator
Michael Bugeja recalls how he learned development and offers tips for those who didn't expect that to be part of their careers.
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Academic Freedom, Outside the Academy
Should college and university professors alone have their work protected by "the scholar's woolen cloak?" Alan Contreras can't imagine why.
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"I Need This Class to Stay on My Parents' Health Insurance"
As a political liberal -- and proud of it, thank you very much -- I believe that it's immoral for...
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Sub-critical mass
Erin O’Connor, an English prof at Penn, blogs about higher ed, sometimes from a position politically to the right of...
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Valentine's Gifts Even Academics Can Love
You know me. I’m a hardnosed intellectual, critic, and person of science, just like you. But Valentine’s Day is tricky—...
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In the Heart of the Heart of the Most Expensive
Three of them come to mind right away, three sensitive, eager, smart literary scholars in the making in my literature...