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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.

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.

U.S. proposals to halve the student loan interest rate and raise the maximum Pell Grant won't help those who need it most, Arthur M. Hauptman argues.

Jonathan Knight writes that it's time for Congress and professors to take on the issue of visa denials to academics.

When there are sound reasons, college presidents can eliminate football, writes Maravene Loeschke, who explains how and why she did so.

The creators of the Collegiate Learning Assessment reply to Trudy W. Banta's essay on measuring general intellectual skills.

When dissident intellectuals in Iran appeal to colleagues in the U.S. for solidarity, the silence is often deafening. Scott McLemee interviews an activist trying to change that.

In one of his Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, wrote, "Time is like a river made...