Unconventional Wisdom

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by Lee Shainen YEARS AGO, DURING the Gulf War, I began a composition class by having the students interview each other, write short biographies, and then read them to the entire class. Due to our proximity to the University of Arizona, there were several international...

by Lee Shainen A WHILE AGO, a student of mine wrote a paper inspired by a poster that said, “Education is the one thing people are willing to pay for.

  NOTE: Several of the on-line textbook sellers mentioned in this piece, originally published in 2000, have gone out of business by Jay Vandergelt I LOVE TENNESSEE Williams’s work. My favorite of.

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by Nathan M Greenfield Twice during the 2020 American presidential election campaign, President Donald Trump attacked Critical Race Theory (CRT). The first time, on Constitution Day in September 2020, Donald Trump called the critical school that developed from Critical Legal Theory in the late 1980s...

by James V. Schall, S.J. A friend of mine recently asked me how he should go about reading Samuel Johnson, the great 18th century English lexicographer, a man of many.

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Though not every contingent faculty member would be eligible for such positions, these alternative models can change the incentive structures inherent in the academic profession. They may be able to remove the negative stigmas surrounding teaching in the academy and may eliminate the class-based distinctions...
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