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'Dancing in the Rain'

Author discusses his new book about how administrators can lead colleges with "mindfulness and self-compassion" -- and the right emotions.

'The Philosophy Scare'

Author discusses his new book about why philosophers were an early target of the Cold War Red scare.
Opinion

Sex on the Brain

While long neglected until its recent republication, Heinrich Kaan’s Psychopathia Sexualis had important implications: it treated human sexuality as entirely explicable within nature, writes Scott McLemee.

'Our Compelling Interests'

In new collection of essays, scholars make the case for diversity as essential to higher education and society generally.

'Keep the Damned Women Out'

Author discusses new book on the history of elite universities becoming coeducational -- with the push coming from male leaders for reasons having little to do with equity.
Opinion

Truth or Consequences

In Deciding What’s True, Lucas Graves traces how media outlets’ internal fact-checking has morphed into something almost antithetical: the very public evaluation of factual assertions made by politicians and other news figures, writes Scott McLemee.

'The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance'

Author discusses his new book on the politics of tuition policies in OECD countries.

Clearing the Shrapnel

Gender-based discrimination in the academic workplace isn’t always overt, but the “shrapnel” of small indignities stays with you. That’s the premise of a new book on this kind of bias, and how to alleviate it.