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Gina Barreca is a professor of English and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut.

Mark Bauerlein is a professor of English at Emory University.

Marc Bousquet is the author of How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation.

Kevin Carey is the policy director for Education Sector, an independent think tank in Washington.

Laurie Fendrich is a painter and professor of fine arts at Hofstra University.

Teresa Ghilarducci teaches economic-policy analysis at the New School. Her books include When I'm Sixty Four: The Plot against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them.

Sara Goldrick-Rab is an assistant professor of educational-policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

John L. Jackson Jr. teaches communication and anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently a visiting professor at Harvard Law School.

Stan Katz directs the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.

Brainstorm Alumni

Eric Banks is a former editor of Bookforum and a member of the National Book Critics Circle board of directors.

Dan Greenberg is a longtime observer of science policy and politics.

Guest blogger Michael Nelson, a former editor of The Washington Monthly, is a professor of political science at Rhodes College.

Guest blogger Marty Nemko is a career coach and higher-education policy writer who has been consultant to 15 college presidents.

Graham Spanier is the president of The Pennsylvania State University.

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg served for 30 years as university president, most recently at George Washington University.

Bob Zemsky serves as chairman of the Learning Alliance at the University of Pennsylvania.

July 4, 2009

Teresa Ghilarducci
Supreme Court or Supreme Bloc?

Who are the real judicial activists?

Laurie Fendrich
Ruminations on the Fourth of July

What are all the fireworks about again?

July 3, 2009

Teresa Ghilarducci
To Test or Not to Test

Much of the opposition against affirmative action isn’t about racism or stinginess, but about a charming belief in tests.

John L. Jackson Jr.
Friday Flicks

From Africana Anthropology to American Angst. Three films: Jump the Sun, Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness, and Away We Go.

July 2, 2009

Gina Barreca
The One Kind of Woman Who Drives Me Crazy

The Delicate Flowers want to be seen as unusual, and as wonderfully different from the rest of their sex.

Kevin Carey
Pondering Higher Education Accountability

Incentives are the only game in town.

John L. Jackson Jr.
What Men Should Learn From Michelle

Khadijah White on the First Lady’s many sacrifices.

Laurie Fendrich
The Terrifying Fence

If you think Bambi was traumatic, try ‘The Poky Little Puppy.’

Sara Goldrick-Rab
The Power Elite

It’s hard to get to know them. Private universities are no exception.

Mark Bauerlein
For Millennials, College and Learning Are Not the Same

An interesting study gives X-ers some slack.

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