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An AAUP Manifesto
A loyal but worried member of the association offers an agenda for making the faculty group more relevant and more powerful.
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Keep 'Em Coming
Everyone focuses on neurasthenic high school juniors desperate to get into good colleges, but let's shift for a moment to...
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Of Sameness
Here was my day, in a sentence: “The past of the character greatly contributes to the meaning of the novel...
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Gossip
If I knew the literature well enough, I'd start developing a theory of academic gossip. As it is, I'm stuck...
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C.L.R. James Meets Tony Soprano
As the HBO classic comes to an end, Scott McLemee revisits an early analysis of the gangster as American archetype.
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Bad Idea in the Bay State
According to this article in the Boston Globe, Gov. Patrick is considering a plan to make community colleges in Massachusetts...
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Where Your Testing Money Goes
Jim Barkus, Chief Reader for AP Literature, told us our punctuality each day and steady application to the task of...
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Why the Boycott Should Outrage All Academics
The vote by the leaders of Britain's faculty union to isolate Israeli professors and universities demands opposition, writes Charles Small.