Michael Stokes Paulsen (St. Thomas): The Uneasy Case for Intellectual Diversity. Jeffrey Beall (Colorado): The Open-Access Movement is Not Really about Open Access. Chase Dimock reviews Camp Sites: Sex, Politics, and Academic Style in Postwar America by Michael Trask. Nora Caplan-Bricker on what Obama's new task force should do to fight college rape. If you could design your ideal college from scratch, what would it look like? Mary Willingham on using unemployed Ph.D.s to teach athletes. Andrea Peterson on how half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available to the public: The funding bill is a victory for open access proponents. Carlos Alberto Gomez Grajales on the perils of modern peer reviews. Crowded out of ivory tower, adjuncts see a life less lofty. Clay Shirky on the end of higher education’s golden age. The ethics of casual teaching contracts: Megan MacKenzie on how we are all implicated in selling out academia and exploiting our students. NYU shall not pass: Village celebrities say — Hey, hey, ho, ho, Sexton’s plan has got to go. Amitai Etzioni on a personal account of the trials that await an activist professor. Is Catholic University going Koch? John Wilson interviews Todd Ream and Perry Glanzer, authors of The Idea of a Christian College: A Reexamination for Today's University. Johanna Drucker on illusions of innovation in scholarly publishing. Why do professors tend to be liberals? Mike LaBossiere wonders. Alex Rosenberg’s attack on literary studies reveals a basic ignorance of the field. Heather MacDonald on the humanities and us: Don’t listen to today’s narcissistic academics — the West’s cultural inheritance is indispensable. Neighbors said to fear “transient academics”.
