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The Lecturer's Tale
A couple of years ago, a book appeared which might as well have had the title The Pedagogy of Zaniness...
Don't Blame the Market
Like ancient Rome in its waning days, American higher education is corrupted by excess. According to a now infamous 2003...
Going to the Bathroom
Terry Caesar remembers when students dealt with bodily functions after class -- and considers their unwillingness to wait today.
This, That and the Other Thing
Intellectual Affairs has been running for just over a month now. It might be a good moment for a bit...
An Academic (Almost) Does the WB
Rich Benjamin gets snared in the reality television craze and learns some lessons about obsession with youth and life as a gay intellectual.
In Black and White
Just because an African-American author turns out to be white doesn't mean that scholarship on her is any less creative....
Who Gets In, What It Costs
John V. Lombardi asks and answers questions about price and selection in American higher education. The core question: Is the system fair?
Summers Beyond Harvard
As a visiting professor at Harvard, KC Johnson takes in the controversy and worries about its impact well beyond Cambridge.