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Austerity is the measure of responsible academic conduct in the age of neoliberalism. To tout its power and promise is a key aspect of being a fully engaged member of [...]

Austerity has become one of the central myths of the new millennium. Particularly, after the market collapse in 2008, many economists and pundits have called for spending reductions and smaller [...]

Can theory save the planet? We already know that it can provide readings of everything from Baudelaire to Barbie Dolls, but what can it do with tsunamis, droughts, and floods? [...]

THIS HUMANITIES WHICH Is NOT ONE (1) It is old news that the humanities are in peril. It is also well-known that their crisis is not just going to go [...]

Violence is everywhere. It could be argued that we are in one of the most violent eras in human history. The scope of violence today is global and its magnitude [...]

Should we be worried that fewer and fewer students enrolled in college are pursuing liberal arts degrees? Or that many private liberal arts colleges are increasing their vocational offerings? Or [...]

In 1996, a relatively unknown associate professor of comparative literature at the Universite de Montreal caused a stir by publishing a book that showed how colleges and universities are run [...]

In this issue, my co-editor, Sophia McClennen from Penn State University, and I sought contributions that engage the potentially paradoxical relations among violence, politics and ethics. We both thought that [...]

Samuel Jay Keyser. Mens et Mania: The MIT Nobody Knows. Cambridge, MA: The MIT P, 2011. 223 pp. Every wonder what it would be like to be Noam Chomsky's department [...]