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Cannibalism and human depravity? Dante would have loved it. Scott McLemee interviews a religious scholar about our fascination with the living dead.

By Scott McLemee

Recent steps to help low-income students afford summer positions are nice, says Anthony Paletta, but colleges should go further: by minimizing the value they place on internships.

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Barbara Fister sees common issues -- and reasons for scholars to pay closer attention -- in the debates over Facebook privacy, Google's library project, and the relationship between academics, libraries and journals.

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Andrew Ross questions the motives and assumptions behind the push by American universities to open campuses abroad.

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Valentine's Day. Time to pull out your Shakespeare's Sonnets, choose one to type up in a fancy font for that...

By Robert Matz

There is more to Richard Posner's book on public intellectuals than the Top 100 list. Scott McLemee revisits it....

By Scott McLemee

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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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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