Opinion

Thanks to DNA testing, Sally Hemings is fully part of national history. Scott McLemee considers the work of a scholar who fears the real story will be whitewashed.

Multiply 15 minutes of fame by 6 billion people, and you’re bound to run across someone famous sometime. Some encounters...

If academics want to help the environment, they need to rethink some of their own practices, writes Eric Rauchway.

Alex Golub considers the transitions -- some not so welcome -- away from a graduate student identity, and holds on when he can.

Terry Caesar considers why some adjuncts insist on being called "professor" and why some colleges resist that appellation.

Your entries to the “One True Sentence” contest prove you’ve seen and heard some things. No wonder you have that...

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.