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Assassins, fools and silly procedures derail careers and degrade our fellow professors, write Cary Nelson and Stephen Watt.

Reference books are the lowest form of scholarship. That makes reading them a guilty pleasure, Scott McLemee confesses.

Sasha Waters offers a pointed reply to her colleague Stephen Bloom's essay last week on journalism and academe.

Judith Halberstam calls for a radical shift in the way her colleagues think about their discipline and its future.

College slogans range from silly to absurd, writes Mark J. Drozdowski.

Right after 9/11, the obituaries started to appear: Irony, the reports said, was dead. Either that or in really bad...

Stephen G. Bloom decries the higher education version of the Academy of the Overrated.

If legislators and the public really want colleges to perform, they've got to put dollars at stake, says John V. Lombardi.