January 28, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

In this week's edition, undergraduate journalists call for more campus activism, defend student voting in college towns and approve one choice for commencement speaker.

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January 28, 2011

Ask a Scholar: Private vs. Public Wages

John Mathys

What accounts for the difference in compensation for private and public workers?

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January 28, 2011

Academic Impactorators

Peter Wood

Peter Wood finds a more meaningful direction for colleges in the book “Academically Adrift” than in the U.N. program Academic Impact.

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January 27, 2011

But Will Navy Now Drop its Diversity Mania?

George Leef

The Chronicle reports on the settlement the Naval Academy has been forced to make with the English professor it retaliated against after he criticized its "affirmative action" program. To call this......

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January 27, 2011

Theophobia

David Clemens

This morning I heard from a necessarily anonymous colleague who teaches at a necessarily anonymous college.  Her Dean had refused to sign off on a grant application because the granting foundatio......

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January 27, 2011

Reassembling Shakespeare's Fair Friend

Peter Wood

Did Shakespeare encode the name of his fair friend in his Sonnets?

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January 26, 2011

Law School -- Not Just Oversold, But Deceptively Oversold

George Leef

In today’s Pope Center Clarion Call, I comment on the recent, wonderfully iconoclastic New York Times piece on law schools. Students are lured into law school in much the same way they’r......

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January 26, 2011

Ask a Scholar: Pericope and Chiasm

Todd D. Moore

Can there be more than one chiasm (a pattern of concentric parallelism) in a pericope (a paragraph, episode, or story)?

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January 25, 2011

The Ideological Tilt of Harvard University Press

George Leef

The Econ Journal Watch categorizes ten years of titles from Harvard University Press, first culling out all those that have no philosophical angle, then categorizing the remaining books.

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