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University Press of New England Will Shut Down

Operation was once supported by 10 colleges, but of late has been backed only by Brandeis and Dartmouth.
Opinion

Of Grift and Government

Scott McLemee reviews Can Government Do Anything Right? by Alasdair Roberts.

Editorial Malpractice?

The editor of a prestigious political science journal uses its website to deny harassment allegations against him, prompting the Midwest Political Science Association to take action critics say it should have taken months ago.

Uncited Research

Analysis suggests big differences among disciplines in the volume of scholarship that fails to garner a citation.
Opinion

The Polymath

Scott McLemee considers Robert Irwin’s Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography.
Opinion

The Data Should Make You Happy!

Michael Roth considers Steven Pinker's paean to progress.

‘Losing Hearts and Minds’

Tens of thousands of Iranian students studied in the U.S. in the 1970s. New book tells how they helped unsettle the diplomatic relationship between Washington and Tehran in lead-up to Iranian Revolution.
Opinion

The Impatient Patient

Scott McLemee explores Barbara Ehrenreich’s Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer.