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‘Misconceiving Merit’
Authors discuss their new book on the way science discriminates against those who are not white or Asian heterosexual men.
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Questioning the Machine
Scott McLemee reviews Mark Coeckelbergh’s The Political Philosophy of AI.
Opinion
Room for Improvement
Scott McLemee begins a two-part look at Mark Coeckelbergh’s books Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and The Political Philosophy of AI.
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‘Bright Ages’ So White
A killed book review and resulting racist backlash reveal the extent of white gatekeeping, ally performativity and outright racism in academe, Ambereen Dadabhoy and Erik Wade write.
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A Present of Things Past
Scott McLemee takes an early look at university press books coming this fall.
Opinion
Millennial Academe: The New Campus Novel
New academic novels from millennial authors depict a world of demoralized graduate assistants and academics and offer little by way of hope, Jeffrey J. Williams writes.
‘A Problem of Fit’
Author explains his book on “how the complexity of college pricing hurts students and universities.”