Opinion

John B. Simpson reflects on what's valid and what's oversimplified in a year of reports criticizing higher education.

When's the last time you listened to the entire "I Have a Dream" speech? Also, here's a site that proposes...

Half-baked thoughts, then, toward an AWP presentation that won’t be: Jokes, the good Dr. Freud said famously, are often “hostile.”...

Shifting from graduate student to professor, Alex Golub thinks about how one answers a common academic question.

I tried to put a panel session together for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Atlanta this...

The language group’s report on tenure calls for expanding definition of scholarship, but fails to recognize the common expectations that reinforce the status quo, John V. Lombardi writes.

Is President Bush a student of Hegel? Scott McLemee doubts it, but considers the evidence.

Once there was a writer for one of America's biggest catalog companies. Perhaps because the young man was a veteran...