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Tough Liberal
The late Al Shanker was both labor leader and ideological warrior. Scott McLemee interviews his biographer for a podcast.
The Academy as a Community Greenhouse
The "ivory tower" analogy is outdated, and comparing colleges to businesses is shortsighted. Carolinda Douglass offers an alternative metaphor for higher education.
If Not Religion, What?
Science can't talk with faith, but philosophy can. Alan Contreras argues for a shift in who does the debating in our continuing national argument.
In the Halls of Academia
As we greet a new academic year, Laurence Musgrove considers how we greet one another.
40 Years of 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual'
Polemics seldom age well. But when Harold Cruse published The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual during the fall of 1967...
The Professor's Ten Commandments, Thanks to Notorious B.I.G.
We're staring down the barrel of another academic year. Time for a refresher course in professional deportment -- by which...
Rankings Help Community Colleges and Their Students
Kevin Carey, who created a rating system, writes that the data are instructive and comparisons are valuable.
Happy New (Academic) Year
The Rev. Scott R. Pilarz considers what he most likes about August in the cycle of academic life.