Christopher Newfield is distinguished professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara and director of research at the Independent Social Research Foundation, London. He is the author of The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them (2016), among other books.
Christopher Newfield
Articles
Deprovincializing Criticism: On Bruce Robbins’s “Criticism and Politics”
Christopher Newfield reviews Bruce Robbins’s “Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction.”
Racial Equality After Affirmative Action: Towards a New Structure of Feeling
Christopher Newfield argues that we need a new narrative to combat the US Supreme Court’s right-wing story about racial inequities.
Suboptimal by Design: On Laura T. Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen’s “Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities”
“Broke” exposes the University of California system as a textbook example of structural racism.
A Socialist Alternative to Human Capital Theory?
"The Death of Human Capital?" shows how to overcome the neoliberal capture and monetizing of education.
Higher Ed on Autopilot
A new book projects a bleak future for US higher education.
Remaking the University: Metrics Noir
A review of three trenchant critiques of the culture of metrics.
What Is New About the New American University?
Will Michael Crow’s “New American University” help re-democratize the US or continue a trend of universities ratifying social inequality and wind up on a dust heap of halfway measures?
Is College Still Worth It?
“Our failing colleges” got the A-side listing. The B-side, “our failing pragmatism: how a market focus hurt college learning” — never got played.
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