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Indiana's Grand Textbook Compromise
Better service, lower prices, higher profits. Indiana U may have found a textbook acquisition model that makes everyone happy.
Opinion
On the Offbeat
A legendary American miracle worker claimed to read books without opening them -- a trick researchers have just pulled off in the lab. Scott McLemee looks from inside a lattice of coincidences.
What Students Really Think
A new book by undergraduates at Michigan State offers teaching advice based on thousands of comments from students starting with the prompt, 'To my professor...'
Digital Education, the 'Mainstream Orthodoxy'
New book examines how technology is changing education -- and whether that change is for the better.
Opinion
Fundamental Trump
Aaron James's provocative new theory on Donald Trump suggests that the presidential candidate's rise makes a certain amount of sense in the context of a republic collapsing under strain, writes Scott McLemee.
Opinion
Write On!
In our digital age, some people predict that writing by hand could become an antiquarian hobby, but Anne Trubek's The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting is a story of metamorphosis, not of decline, writes Scott McLemee.
Feds Target 'Predatory' Publishers
The Federal Trade Commission is "marking a line in the sand" with its first lawsuit against publishers that take advantage of scholars wishing to publish in open-access journals.
Opinion
Increase Scholarly Visibility Using This One Weird Trick!
Scott McLemee reviews a scholarly article that examines how small but significant tweaks to an academic paper's title can make it more likely to win attention.