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What Professors Want From Editors and Peer Reviewers
Responding to a journal editor's helpful essay about expectations for scholarly authors, Kevin Brown offers the flip side.
The Playboy Philosopher
Bernard-Henri Lévy has become an American media superstar. Scott McLemee thinks his fifteen minutes are about up.
I Hate Bucky Dent
Todd Diacon wonders what today's students -- behind their closed doors -- don't know about their dormmates and how that lack of interaction is changing the nature of the college experience.
Planning for Contraction
Timothy Burke looks at the changing economic landscape for higher education -- and sees a coming period of relative austerity.
Breaking the Code
It isn't as spiffy as the homeland security threat level system, but David Galef tries to explain the latest revision of U of All People's course coding system.
Don't Go Changing
Barack Obama’s campaign slogan, “Change we can believe in,” will never be mistaken for a classic of the genre. It...
The Anti-Intellectual Presidency
A new book looks at the dumbing-down of American politics. Scott McLemee is surprised it's in one volume.
Colleges Should Stand Up to the Entertainment Industry
Times have changed, and just because the music and movie industries face challenges is no reason for them to turn higher ed into their enforcers, writes Kevin Carey.