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Students Want to Write Well; We Don’t Let Them
Ryan Boyd reviews John Warner’s new manifesto for the writing classroom....
Education
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....
Does Public Education Have a Future?
A new book makes a case for public schools because of what they used to do, not what they’re now doing....
Class Acts
A new memoir about refugee teenagers in a Denver high school....
Ms. Adventures in Higher Education
Katherine West and Chet Whipley's graphic essay about the spectatorial nature of women’s vulnerability and visibility in the workplace....
“‘America’ Is Not the Object”: An Interview with Kandice Chuh, President of the American Studies Association
What does the American Studies Association make possible in 2017?...
Culture Is Armor: On Adam Gopnik and the Necessity of the Cultural Intellectual
On Adam Gopnik as a public intellectual....
Religious Liberty in a Fractured Republic
Is our public life gripped by misbegotten nostalgias that keep us from engaging new political and social realities?...
The Secret Recipe for Success in the Arts
Alexis Clements on how the rigged game of capital exploits artists....
“The End Is Where We Start From”: On Evan Kindley’s “Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture”
Bradley Babendir reviews Evan Kindley’s “Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture.”...
Demystifying the Contents of the Universe: A New Look at Mina Loy
Jacquelyn Ardam reviews a new critical study of cryptic modernist poet Mina Loy....
Deprovincializing Philosophy
Peter Adamson’s “Philosophy in the Islamic World” marks a revolution: it redraws the map of the history of philosophy in a fundamental way....
Richard Rorty: Life, Pragmatism, and Conversational Philosophy
Part of a LARB forum in which philosophers reflect on the legacy of Richard Rorty....
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