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January 10, 2011

Nature-Deficit Disorder?

Ashley Thorne

A winter course, "Sustainability and Social Justice," at the University of Chicago, will explore "biophilia" and "ecopedagogy."

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January 7, 2011

Huckleberry Finn and Cultural Senstitivity

Glenn Ricketts

You may have read about the latest attempt to make a classic work acceptable to contemporary PC sensibilities, in this case a new edition of Huckleberry Finn from which racial epithets - certainly aut......

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January 7, 2011

Rich Vedder on the Overproduction of Advanced Degrees

George Leef

At The Chronicle's Innovations blog, Rich Vedder discusses the overproduction of advanced degrees in the U.S. 

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January 7, 2011

Where Did Those Mushy "No Labels" Ideas Come From?

George Leef

In this sharp essay, Mary Grabar links the intellectually mushy "No Labels" movement to academic fads that decried logic and debate as just bad male habits.

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January 7, 2011

Faculty Productivity

George Leef

In today's Pope Center piece, Duke Cheston writes about his findings regarding the UNC political science department. Have tenured faculty engaged in some successful "rent seeking" to reduce the......

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