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Why is America so strange? Scott McLemee interviews a historian with a surprising answer.

Donald Lazere writes that liberal and conservative academics should have a common agenda in defending educational values.

Joseph Reisert writes that the real problem with ideological imbalance is its impact on academe's influence in society.

The system under which top journals share findings with reporters doesn't serve journalism, science or the public interest, writes Vincent Kiernan.

Margaret Gutman Klosko says many top colleges have left a key element out of the curriculum.

If trustees focus on their institutions’ financial needs alone, writes Ronald G. Ehrenberg, they may make decisions that are worse for society and higher education as a whole.

You -- critical thinking products of American colleges -- can best refute insinuations that higher education is failing to educate students, Bernard Fryshman writes.

Progress in digital publishing -- some of it impressive, some of it not -- does not mean traditional books are disappearing, writes Scott W. Palmer.