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Requiem for a Heavyweight

The late Richard Rorty was a pragmatist philosopher and a generous soul. Scott McLemee looks back....
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The Perpetuation of Privilege

When enormously wealthy individuals give millions to enormously wealthy universities, it's time to stop calling it philanthropy, writes Walter M. Kimbrough.
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Saving 30 Years

Terry Caesar considers networks, knowing the "right people," and prestige real and imagined.
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Have I Been Watching This Movie Backwards?

The Education Department's pressure on colleges to use quantitative measures of student learning is getting ahead of the needed research, Bernard Fryshman writes.
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An AAUP Manifesto

A loyal but worried member of the association offers an agenda for making the faculty group more relevant and more powerful.
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C.L.R. James Meets Tony Soprano

As the HBO classic comes to an end, Scott McLemee revisits an early analysis of the gangster as American archetype.
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Why the Boycott Should Outrage All Academics

The vote by the leaders of Britain's faculty union to isolate Israeli professors and universities demands opposition, writes Charles Small.
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The (Crossover) Book Report

As publishers gather, university presses consider which books can attract non-academic audiences.