I strongly recommend Laura McKenna's piece on the wall that separates the general public from academic research: Step back and think about this picture. Universities that created this academic content for free must pay to read it. Step back even further. The public -- which...
the groves of academe
I haven't been following the story, but the absurdity of this should be manifest: Videos posted by the conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart appear to have ended the teaching career of.
This is academic inside baseball, but since that's obviously a disproportionate percentage of our audience, I'd thought I'd give some publicity to the issue here. The political science journal Gender.
Leaving aside his wanktastic politics, one thing that was never clear to me was exactly what credentials Bob Kerrey had to run a university. I know fundraising is very important.
The NY Times is a repeat competitor in the let's shove women into boxes olympics. This week's entry: the Magazine's article about people who remain abstinent into their teens...people at.
In this week's installment, she contributes to the Ridiculous Martyrdom of Larry Summers by backing up nonsense spoken by Christina Hoff Sommers :How will we ever be able to talk about sex differences in an interesting way if we're not allowed to study them? If...