Martha Biondi (Northwestern): Controversial Blackness: The Historical Development and Future Trajectory of African American Studies. Why Arizona's ethnic studies crisis should matter to all educators: An interview with Rudy Acuna. Is the time right for a field of hate studies? A single interdisciplinary field would bring new insights and understanding to this very human reality, say proponents, but others aren’t sure it’s necessary. From Transformations of the Public Sphere, Stephen Walt on International Affairs and the public sphere. From TriQuarterly, here is an open letter by Michael Anania concerning the evaluation by colleges and universities of publishing by creative writers. What killed American Lit: Today's collegians don't want to study it — who can blame them? (and a response) Oh, the humanities! Joshua F. Leach on how the liberal arts can save themselves. A review of The Public Value of the Humanities. Can Antioch College return from the dead again? Next month’s rebirth of the most liberal of liberal arts colleges comes at an unsettled moment in higher education. Conservative think that modern colleges are bastions on unfettered communism, but critics are wrong in thinking that classic western culture has been run out of town. A review of God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition by Alasdair MacIntyre. A review of Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age by Ann M. Blair. The research lab in your pocket: Apps created by and for the academy could turn smartphones into essential academic tools for everything from teaching and citations to social-science fieldwork. Education is in the streets: A global wave of student protests has spread over the past two years — Scott McLemee looks into a new book from the barricades.
