Recent Articles
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Are Too Many Students Going to College?
There is a growing sentiment that college may not be the best option for all. The Chronicle asked higher-education experts to weigh in.
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No Fear of Fat
From the producers of race studies, queer studies, and women's studies, fat studies is coming to a campus near you. By Sondra Solovay and Esther Rothblum.
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'Lives on the Boundary' at 20
A 1989 inquiry into what it would take to reach students who don't "get" academe remains relevant today, writes Gerald Graff.
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Reagan and the 80s Deserve More Courses
For too long, the 1960s have eclipsed the 1980s as a cultural and political American touchstone, writes Gil Troy.
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What My Research Students Did Over Summer Vacation
Undergraduate lab research projects are a one-of-a-kind experience, writes Kelly G. Lambert, and well worth college support even in tough times.
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Critical Mass: Renewed Debate Over the 3-Year B.A.
Lamar Alexander and Robert Zemsky argue the advantages
of three-year baccalaureate programs. But skeptics see the prospect... -
Nota Bene: Isaiah Berlin, Beyond the Wit
On the centenary of his birth, Isaiah Berlin is celebrated not just for his well-rounded erudition as a speaker, explains Evan R. Goldstein, but as an author and thinker of...
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Weekly Book List, November 9, 2009
Descriptions of new scholarly books, organized by category.
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Field Report: Prison Studies
Some 2.3 million Americans are in prison. Scholars are trying to understand why, and what effects such mass incarceration has on society.
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Behind Bars
Prison memoirs hold an enduring appeal, writes Jay Parini, because they testify to prisoners' humanity—and because they turn the mirror on us.
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Global Warming Before Smokestacks
Yes, civilization spews out greenhouse gases, but one scientist says that started long before the Industrial Revolution.
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Is This Literary History?
Mark Bauerlein and Priscilla Wald assay Harvard's unorthodox A New Literary History of America, and one of the book's editors, Werner Sollors, weighs in.
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Social Science on Trial in Tehran
Max Weber, political subversive—or so he's labeled in Iran, along with plenty of other social theorists, writes Charles Kurzman.
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Trying to Engage Students Can Break Your Heart
Brian P. Hall blames himself when students flame out. But what should he have done differently?
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Nota Bene: Marauders on the High Seas
Peter Monaghan examines new books about pirates as empire builders, economic innovators, and the ultimate enemy.
