My friend, Nathan Coleman, introduced me to this post on the question of historians advocating policy. If historians feel compelled to enter into public policy advocacy, maybe they should view themselves as explicitly engaging in two different functions…
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Far from my native Midwest, which sometimes seems to be working out the details of its final collapse after decades of decline, and far from the equally depressing backroom corruption and social-democratic clientalism of Pennsylvania, I have appreciated…
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Amid the political tumult are scores of urgent questions begging to be investigated, guest blogger Daniel Byman writes.
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Everyone pitching in sounds good, writes Naomi Schaefer Riley. The devil's in the proletariat details.
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The Ivy reconsiders its early-action policies, writes Naomi Schaefer Riley. How should we interpret that?
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The many surveys backing up what those of us in the academy know only too well---that liberals vastly outnumber conservatives---are used to bolster the idealistic argument for "intellectual diversity." But a viewing of an incident at the recent CPAC conference and a video of a philosophy professor further confirmed my beliefs that it is not intellectual diversity that is needed as much as intellectual anything...
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Yes, it may make you a little sleepy, says Kevin Carey, but the future of higher education depends in large part on its being done well.
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A popular notion within the academy is that teaching quality cannot be measured, but this is an article of faith, not a demonstrated fact.
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