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'Prophets, Gurus and Pundits'
A new book argues that public intellectuals possess not just knowledge and opinions but something academics lack: style. Scott McLemee considers the rhetoric.
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'The Bigot'
Combating prejudice is like the labors of Sisyphus. Scott McLemee interviews an author who keeps on pushing.
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The Loose, Baggy Monster
A new book take up the cudgels on behalf of social constructionism. Scott McLemee isn't exactly knocked out.
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Mass Incarceration on Trial
The U.S. leads the world in the size of its prison population. Scott McLemee check out a new book suggesting that tide is starting to turn.
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A Degree of Fraud
Diploma mills are almost as old as the university itself. Scott McLemee wonders why there isn't more scholarship on the real problem of fake degrees.
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Buy the Batch
An ebook series puts old scholarly papers in front of new readers. Scott McLemee thinks it's a model worth emulating.
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Becoming Freud
A new book considers the founding father of psychoanalysis as self-made man. Scott McLemee has a look.
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Know Thy Selfie
People refer to "the Me generation" as if there were just the one. Scott McLemee peers into Simon Blackburn's "Mirror, Mirror."