June 4, 2009

NAS Pleased By Leach Nomination to NEH

Steve Balch

NAS comments on the nomination of James A. Leach to head the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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June 4, 2009

Exchange Counter

Peter Wood

Meet Free Exchange on Campus, a coalition uninterested in free exchange on campus.

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June 2, 2009

Tuesday Tuba

Ashley Thorne

Mac Mods in the Chronicle, the TESOL seesaw, and the climate action promise.

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May 29, 2009

Time to graduate?

Carol Iannone

A prominent literary critic weighs evidence that artistic nihilism has become a bore.

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May 29, 2009

Mac Mods

Peter Wood

Macalester College shuts out a moderate alumni group.

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May 28, 2009

"O Cosmic Birther!" The Lord's Prayer Meets the American College Textbook

Michael Booker

A philosophy professor finds an Internet legend subbing for the Gospel truth and looks in vain for "critical reasoning."

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