The ethnic studies professor should not have been fired for speaking out about 9/11. The problem remains his slanted work on Native American history.
By Gary Kamiya Apr 9, 2009
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Would a petite, left-leaning professorial type be taken seriously on the streets?
By Cary Tennis
April 15, 2009
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The author of a new book says no, and talks about how a site spawned by an Ayn Rand enthusiast became our most popular encyclopedia.
By Vincent Rossmeier
March 24, 2009
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Academics meet to discuss the public's fascination with "train wreck" celebrities.
By Judy Berman
June 30, 2008
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Our country is barely smarter than a fifth grader -- no wonder it's drowning in religious fundamentalism and political ideologues on both sides, argues Susan Jacoby.
By Laura Miller
February 15, 2008
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My husband is trying to show he can be trusted. But it's not working. Have I lost the capacity?
By Cary Tennis
November 4, 2008
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Too much drama in the drama department -- should I have kept my mouth shut?
By Cary Tennis
September 16, 2008
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My wife and I could live anywhere and have great success as doctors, but my mother and sister are ill and need help at home.
By Cary Tennis
October 16, 2007
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Crack Commandment No. 1: Keep that Harvard monograph to your self, homeboy.
By Andrew Leonard
August 31, 2007
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My girlfriend is going to Berkeley; should I take a dream job in Toronto?
By Cary Tennis
June 28, 2007
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I'm an older student, and I could take a more prudent course, but...
By Cary Tennis
March 29, 2007
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I got into the hot creative writing MFA program I dreamed of, but now I feel I don't belong.
By Cary Tennis
February 1, 2007
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How does motherhood affect scholarship at an Ivy League college?
By Rebecca Traister
March 20, 2006
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From the author of "White Teeth" and "The Autograph Man" comes an extraordinary academic comic novel in the tradition of "Howards End" that bursts with imagination.
By Laura Miller
October 1, 2005
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Gender-theory superstar Judith Butler takes on 9/11 and its aftermath in a new book -- written in clear English! But the task of postmodern theory, she argues, is more crucial now than ever.
By Astra Taylor
July 6, 2004
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Thrilled to hear David Horowitz's pronouncement that "campus censors are on the run," I try a little free speech of my own -- at Bob Jones U. and other conservative schools.
By David Mazel
April 27, 2001
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What's wrong with a little drunken hedonism, when sports also helps break down barriers of race and class?
By Larry S. Platt
October 5, 2000
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The outrage at the government's prosecution of a major security breach highlights liberals' contempt for U.S. interests.
By David Horowitz
October 3, 2000
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Readers write about academia and its disintegration, lesbians without personalities, Peter Pan syndrome among gay men and simpering nymphets of the Flockhart-Paltrow school.
By Camille Paglia
June 9, 2000
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Holocaust denier David Irving loses his London libel suit.
By Heather World
April 11, 2000
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Reactions to Diallo verdict Plus: Hard work pays off for post-docs; does AARP stand for Association for the Advancement of Rich People?
Letters to the editor
March 1, 2000
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Horowitz is wrong: Cornel West is no lightweight! Plus: Coastal elitists bash Kansas "rednecks"; women hurt women in campus tenure battles.
Letters to the Editor
October 18, 1999
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Battling cancer, a nice male psychoanalyst and her own sexual demons, the diva of queer theory learned a new way of living.
By Maria Russo
September 27, 1999
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Overdosing on "ecstasy" scare stories; why are female sportswriters whining?
Letters to the Editor
July 14, 1999
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Escaping the crumbling tower: A former academic offers lessons in joining the real world
By Jennifer Stone Gonzalez
March 29, 1999
Ward Churchill's win is scholarship's loss
I'm an academic woman but I want to be a cop
Are we dangerously dependent on Wikipedia?
Britney and Lindsay go to college
America closes the book on intelligence
Some advice for the newly academic, from the Notorious B.I.G.
"On Beauty" by Zadie Smith
Who says theory is dead?
Right-wing colleges reject "God is an abortionist" ads
In defense of college athletics
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