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Sex on the Brain
While long neglected until its recent republication, Heinrich Kaan’s Psychopathia Sexualis had important implications: it treated human sexuality as entirely explicable within nature, writes Scott McLemee.
'Our Compelling Interests'
In new collection of essays, scholars make the case for diversity as essential to higher education and society generally.
'Keep the Damned Women Out'
Author discusses new book on the history of elite universities becoming coeducational -- with the push coming from male leaders for reasons having little to do with equity.
'The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance'
Author discusses his new book on the politics of tuition policies in OECD countries.
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Truth or Consequences
In Deciding What’s True, Lucas Graves traces how media outlets’ internal fact-checking has morphed into something almost antithetical: the very public evaluation of factual assertions made by politicians and other news figures, writes Scott McLemee.
Clearing the Shrapnel
Gender-based discrimination in the academic workplace isn’t always overt, but the “shrapnel” of small indignities stays with you. That’s the premise of a new book on this kind of bias, and how to alleviate it.
'The Uberfication of the University'
Author discusses new book on the relationship between the "sharing economy" and the erosion of faculty rights.
Opinion
He Said, She Said
In each of two new novels, Loner and Diary of an Oxygen Thief, it is the narrator's attitude that sticks with the reader more than the events recounted, writes Scott McLemee.