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Put down that chocolate and pick up some broccoli! Improve your attitude and you can do anything! Scott McLemee looks into a new book on the critique of self-improvement.

By Scott McLemee

"Glad the semester is almost over!" "Grading, grading, grading." Jeff Rice is tired of the way professors seem determined to say something meaningless to one another.

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It's time for conservatives who claim to support the humanities to move beyond a single author and to question program cuts and a culture that devalues literary study, writes Robert Matz.

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Presidents need to teach undergraduates, writes Julie Wollman.

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Judith Shapiro considers whether it is time for faculty members to focus on their colleges and universities more than on their disciplines and organizational units.

By Judith Shapiro

A historian's travels can contribute more to her work than archival sources. Scott McLemee reads Dispatches From Dystopia.

By Scott McLemee

It doesn't matter how wrong the television host is on important issues, writes John K. Wilson. He shouldn't lose a faculty job over public statements.

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