From InterActions, Robert Rhoads (UCLA): The New Militarism, Global Terrorism, and the American University: Making Sense of the Assault on Democracy “Here, There, Somewhere”. Here are five reasons politicians hate academics: Between the worlds of politics and higher education lies a lot of misunderstanding. From Logos, an article on the academic boycott of Israel — Objections and defense. Eric Rauchway on Bush's plan to mess up state universities. The Bush Administration's Civil Rights Commission would like us to believe that affirmative action harms black students by placing them in situations where they can't keep up. Conservative liberal arts: Hanna Rosin’s God’s Harvard describes life at Patrick Henry College. Catholic Character: After years of planning, a new generation of ideological colleges takes shape, in purposeful counterpoint to traditional institutions they see as having lost the way. Exploring ways to shorten the ascent to a PhD: The doctoral dissertation can loom on the horizon like Everest, gleaming invitingly as a challenge but often turning into a masochistic exercise once the ascent is begun. Anyone looking for an information obfuscator, lunchtime banterer, or Marxist turncoat? It’s high time for humanists to market their underappreciated skills to the private sector.
