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Tony Keller writes that magazine compilations of information about higher education serve students and the public.
A Dish Best Served Cold
Shakespeare wrote one of the most savage plays in the canon. Scott McLemee visits the dark side.
From the Department of Oh My
Robert Olen Butler’s recent writing-advice book, From Where You Dream, warns of the difficulties of being a literary artist instead...
Our Entering Class for 2008
The Ivy League's ever-increasing selectivity prompts a response from U. of All People, channeled by David Galef.
In Praise of Small Conferences
You don't need thousands of people and academic superstars to learn a lot, writes Jason Pickavance.
Churm House, Part 3
My wife and I will soon open part of our home as Churm House, an inn for wayward academics. When...
Utilizing America's Most Wasted Resource
How often have we heard, “People with talent and ideas are America’s greatest resource”? And yet, while colleges and universities...
The Flawed Metaphor of the Spellings Summit
Manufacturing is not the model for higher education, writes Daniel F. Chambliss, and that's why the education secretary's conclave was based on faulty assumptions.