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How We Become Men
We’ll be traveling for a few days, and I expect my posts to be intermittent next week, so here’s a...
Time for a Wartime Higher Ed Tax Policy
Will colleges and universities yield on new buildings for funds to keep low-income students in school and help veterans go to college? Wick Sloane asks.
'Dude, You're a Fag'
"There's a faggot over there! There's a faggot over there! Come look!" Brian, a senior at "River" High School yelled...
Sarko and 'Sixty-Eight
The Greek government has once again given up efforts to prod that country'sdead university system to life - violent street...
Casaubon on Viagra
The cliché of the absent-minded, asexual professor is dead. Scott McLemee looks at "the new academic stereotype."
The Unlikelihood of Fathers
I didn’t grow up with a father, so my two sons have exactly as much experience with actual fatherhood as...
Assessment for 'Us' and Assessment for 'Them'
In the movie "Ghostbusters," Dan Aykroyd commiserates with Bill Murray after the two lose their jobs as university researchers. “Personally...
The Defense Department vs. Free Speech on Campus
Proposed regulations about military recruiting and ROTC threaten key academic values, writes John K. Wilson.