AWP on the Brink
AWP’s recently terminated director of Conferences outlines the dangers facing the organization....
Himmler’s Antiquity
Alison C. Traweek discusses the racist origins of classics as a discipline....
The Apprentice in Theory: Fan, Student, Star
Catherine Liu and Devan Bailey reflect on Avital Ronell and the Theory star system....
Time to Take Sexism in Post-Secondary Education Seriously
Sarah Boon looks at “Sexism Ed,” a new collection of essays from Kelly J. Baker that looks at how gender discrimination impacts women’s lives in academia....
Saving the World with Metaphor: Toward an Ecological Poetics
How the humanities can save us....
Cisco and Microsoft — Their Part in My Downfall; or, the Lost Ethics of Higher Ed; or, Maybe, a Sob Story
Toby Miller reflects on his unfortunate experiences in British academia....
Remaking the University: Geoffrey Galt Harpham on Democracy and Interpretation in the United States
What do Frederick Douglass and the New Criticism have in common?...
Whose University Is It Anyway?
Can higher education be saved from the all-administrative university?...
“The Newcomers” Is an Antidote to Anti-Refugee Rhetoric Invading Politics
Jennifer Oldham interviews Helen Thorpe about "The Newcomers," in which she recounts the time she spent with teenage refugees as they learned English....
Reply to W. J. T. Mitchell’s “The Trolls of Academe”
David Horowitz responds to W. J. T. Mitchell's "The Trolls of Academe," and Mitchell offers his own rebuttal to Horowitz's reply....
Rebel Yale: Reading and Feeling “Hillbilly Elegy”
It is his refusal to speak directly about “issues” that makes J. D. Vance the new pundit for white people....
More Speech or Enforced Silence? Stephen Rohde Reviews Two Recent Books on the Subject of Free Speech on Campus
How to protect free speech on campus....
