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Gershon Legman thought sexual repression made for a mean and bitter society. Scott McLemee wonders if the culture automatically gets more pleasant when we let it all hang out.

Some ideas are better in theory than practice, writes Shari Wilson, who found the much-praised approach gave students needless fears and the wrong motivations.

Terry Caesar considers why some adjuncts insist on being called "professor" and why some colleges resist that appellation.

Alex Golub considers the transitions -- some not so welcome -- away from a graduate student identity, and holds on when he can.

If academics want to help the environment, they need to rethink some of their own practices, writes Eric Rauchway.

Thanks to DNA testing, Sally Hemings is fully part of national history. Scott McLemee considers the work of a scholar who fears the real story will be whitewashed.

How do you measure the best religion? The best marriage? Hard to say. The same is true in assessing colleges, Bernard Fryshman writes.

Laurence Musgrove is no Luddite, but he's sick of being told he has to learn some new gizmo to reach his students.