Whistling Past the Graveyard
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This September, two articles on the crisis of higher education were published in the New York Times, both on the same day, but in different sections of the paper.
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This September, two articles on the crisis of higher education were published in the New York Times, both on the same day, but in different sections of the paper.
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While working to improve your chances of landing an academic position this year or next, you may want to start considering alternate career paths. There are a number of possibilities (in no particular order):
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In response to the increasing number of requests to “write a paper for extra credit,” which can be purchased easily at the “writing help center” store front, I have developed several extra credit opportunities for students to earn a few extra points minus student shortcuts.
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"That was a very interesting lecture, Professor … so what’s on the test?" How many times have we been asked this question? It’s as if the students weren’t even in the room.
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From Plato and Aristotle to Cicero, we observe a radical change in the understanding of classical natural right. By contrast to his two predecessors, Cicero doesn’t seem to harbor any doubt about the salutary character of some philosophical doctrine of natural right for the political community. In his dialogue The Laws, we see Cicero having recourse to the notion of a rational or natural law to defend and justify his own slightly improved version of the ancient Roman Republic’s legal code. Since the notion of a “natural law” also appears in Cicero’s Republic(cf. I.17 and 3.22), Cicero has often been considered as one of the first thurifers of this controversial notion. In this paper, we focus exclusively on Cicero’s presentation of the natural law in his dialogue The Laws. After replacing Cicero’s treatment of the natural law in its specific context, we argue that in his Laws, Cicero’s defends two different notions of the natural law: 1) the natural law strictly speaking which is the preserve of the wise man, a law whose only command is that the wise man should rule over the unwise; 2) the natural law understood as the theoretical support of the gentleman’s moral decency. In this last sense, the natural law is disconnected from any real knowledge of the whole, and becomes as a consequence a very problematic concept.
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If the evidence that the recession is over is so clear, why are we still in “tough economic times,” as the hackneyed phrase has it? Why are there so many unemployed resources? Why are so many people out of work?
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Public usage of religious rhetoric by political leaders has been a part of the American experience since the country’s colonial beginnings and, at least in recent decades, it has become a source of controversy and division. While the practice has varied according to historical circumstance, there remain certain perennial characteristics to the way religion, specifically Christianity, has been appropriated by public officials in the United States.
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