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Lessons from a Super Loss

The seeds of the Colts’ defeat were written several weeks earlier -- with implications for higher education, Karen Gross writes.
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Critique of Impure Reason

All hail the scholarship of Jean-Baptiste Botul! Scott McLemee looks into a case of philosophical fact-checking.
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J.D. Salinger: An Un-Appreciation

By rejecting anthologies and rebuffing biographers, a great author limited his future readership, writes Leonard Cassuto.
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It's More Than High Jinks

The New York Times last month reported a story about several politically active students who crossed the line from what...
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Afterglow From the MLA

Maria Shine Stewart, a first timer at the annual gathering of literature and language instructors, will be paying off the trip for a while. But it was well worth it for the content and camaraderie, she writes.
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Course Evaluations, Years Later

Professors may get much better feedback by waiting a while -- and then asking students to reflect on what stayed with them, writes Tom Deans.
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In the American Grain

Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, died last week. Scott McLemee salutes a voice of dissent.
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The Good Reader

Unlike many other, less famous writers, Howard Zinn treated a young editorial assistant like a person. Rachel Toor remembers him fondly.