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My Friend Al Gonzales
Michael A. Olivas reflects on how faculty colleagues reacted when they learned of his connection to the attorney general whose policies he opposes.
Doing the Lord's Work
Two images of William Jennings Bryan have settled into the public memory, neither of them flattering. One is the fundamentalist...
Reforming Selective College Admissions
Deirdre Henderson offers a parent's view on fixing what she says is a broken process.
Who's Afraid of David Horowitz?
One indisputable fact about my new book The Professors is that it has upset a lot of people. Indeed a...
The Pretense
James Wallenstein thinks back on his ambivalent relationship with an academic star.
The Perils of Academic Unions
KC Johnson writes that collective bargaining is not the answer to the problems facing faculty members and graduate students.
A Threat to Freedom
Legal defeat for student journalists and debate over publishing Muhammad cartoons should worry academics, writes John K. Wilson.
D'Ho!
The groves of academe now echo with howls of outrage over The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America...