Books & Publishing

Tom Nichols devotes most of The Death of Expertise to identifying how 21st-century American life blurs the line between fact and opinion, writes Scott McLemee.

By Scott McLemee

A bad abstract won’t by itself cause journal editors to reject a scholarly article, but it does incline them toward an initial negative answer, write Faye Halpern and James Phelan.

By Faye Halpern and James Phelan

A new book argues that the focus on credentials and growing inequality led to the rise in for-profit colleges.

Abraham Flexner's The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge highlights how the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake has shown itself to be a powerful force in the world, writes Scott McLemee.

By Scott McLemee

A new book argues that the NCAA "has lost its way in the governance of intercollegiate athletics" and that the association is incapable of achieving reform.

Study suggests university presses are publishing fewer books in the humanities. Experts say the publishing industry is facing more significant changes.

Current technology offers unfettered access to good information and good scholarship, but standing in the way is the U.S. copyright law, argues Bryn Geffert.

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A new documentary and a book from Denmark point to the dangers and dead ends of the self-transformation industry, says Scott McLemee

By Scott McLemee