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Advancing Your Online Education Strategy
March 29, 2023
Successful planning approaches tend to ask and answer these 12 questions, Ben Chrischilles writes.
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March 28, 2023
In cutting languages, colleges undercut commitments to social justice and to translation, in the broadest possible sense, Jessica Blum-Sorensen writes.
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This week, America turns off the TV. Yeah, right, says Scott McLemee.
David Horowitz's War on Rational Discourse
April 25, 2005
It has been heartening to witness the recent runaway success of Princeton emeritus Harry G. Frankfurt’s latest book, On Bullshit. First published as an essay in 1988, Frankfurt’s splendid study is largely an effort to distinguish between lies and bullshit. A liar, Frankfurt notes, acknowledges truth-systems yet tries to pass off information that is not true.
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Michael Bugeja thinks about Shakespeare, the Internet, footnotes and scholarship -- on the eve of the Bard's birthday.
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Strangely Enough
April 21, 2005
A recent essay raises interesting questions about literary hoaxing.
Guidance from Above
April 20, 2005
Colleges that shift to performance-based education usually need a big push from their presidents, Joseph A. Olzacki and Donn Weinholtz argue.

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