A Case for Pretending: Why Identity Is a Sham and Authenticity an Illusion
The tighter we cling to any aspect of self-identity, the more we suffer and the more vital it becomes to release our grip.
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The Follies and Potentials of Higher Education: ‘The Real World of College’
The Real World of College offers a research-backed, level-headed, non-political assessment of higher education. It’s a breath of fresh air let in stuffy rooms.
Punk in the Classroom: Question Everything
Punk’s “question everything” attitude has always been suited to education, despite the forces that seek to contain its rabble-rousing trouble-making from the classroom.
Can Queer Studies Rescue American Universities?
Matt Brim's Poor Queer Studies underscores the impact of poorer disciplines and institutions, which often do more to translate and apply transformative intellectual ideas in the world than do their ivory-tower counterparts.
Does Inclusivity Mean That Everyone Does the Same Thing?
What is the meaning of diversity in today’s world? Russell Jacoby raises and addresses some pertinent questions in his latest work, On Diversity.
Critical Noir: Confessions of a ThugNiggaIntellectual
If you need to know what the boundaries of diction are, listen to my reformed ghetto-ass.
The White Man’s Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon
A certain species that thrive in English departments and creative writing programs make good fodder for satire in Dana Schwartz's The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon.
The Eternal Snow of Frozen Tears: Saving Melting Landscapes
Zürich's Institute of Landscape Architecture explores the fragile connection between mankind and nature in a multimedia project that merges science with art, turning sounds and images of a changing alpine glacier into a moving call to action.
Epistemological Anxieties and Irony in ‘Who’s Who When Everyone Is Someone Else’
C.D. Rose’s Who’s Who When Everyone is Someone Else is as striking for its achievements as it is for its failures, but ultimately the whole exercise is inessential.
Therese Bohman’s Works Are Grounded Deep in the Souls of the Women She Portrays
Eventide is a compelling psychological portrait of a successful academic woman starting her personal life anew in her 40s.
Why Aren’t Safe Spaces and Brave Spaces Working in Academia?
University campuses are seething. But telling people to get along with each other is not the answer.