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Why I won't pay the Daily Princetonian
Yes, the paper ran my anti-reparations ad, but the editorial printed alongside it was pure slander.
By David Horowitz Apr 16, 2001
Slaves of a different color Slaves of a different color
Historians mostly ignore the fact that some white people, too, were enslaved before the Civil War.
By Stephan Talty Jun 15, 2000
May 20, 2000
Poison pen
The execution of writer Robert Brasillach for "intellectual crimes" during World War II raises questions we still don't know how to answer.
By Lawrence Osborne Mar 29, 2000
Uninformed consent
What's missing from the fine print when students sign up as guinea pigs?
By Rachel Louise Snyder Mar 27, 2000
Makin' out at Bob Jones U.
I lied so I could sin. But I need to thaw in hell after Bob Jones' deepfreeze.
By Daniel Kraus Mar 22, 2000
The junior Nobel Prize pageant
It was like a dream: One moment I'm in homeroom and the next I'm sipping Shirley Temples on a private jet.
By Lucas Hanft Mar 20, 2000
The Scrooge of science
In his book "Voodoo Science," physicist Robert Park responds to alternative medicine and cold fusion with a resounding "Bah, humbug!"
By Jennifer Ouellette Mar 15, 2000
Trading places
When traditionally privileged professors are the campus minority, they turn into white panthers.
By Michael Alvear Mar 13, 2000
The Tao of "Seinfeld"
A sitcom that forbade hugging and learning becomes a tool for teaching Aristotle. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
By James Nestor Mar 8, 2000
Chains of love
Always fall for losers? According to some evolutionary psychiatrists, the brain has little control over choices of the heart.
By Annie Murphy Paul Mar 6, 2000
Carrying justice
Why is the job of overturning wrongful death penalty convictions being left to a handful of students and academics?
By David Moberg Mar 1, 2000
Slaves to science
For post-docs, finding a supernova is easier than finding a job.
By William Speed Weed Feb 28, 2000
Priceline U.
Make me an offer: At eCollegebid.org, students name their price for tuition. You may get a cut-rate deal -- at a no-name school.
By Brian Braiker Feb 23, 2000
Working-class zero
President Clinton's College Opportunity Tax Cut plan offers tuition breaks -- but only to families who can already afford college.
By Beth Macy Feb 16, 2000
Suspicious minds
In his new book, "The Dangerous Passion," psychologist David Buss proposes that jealousy is an evolutionary necessity.
By Annie Murphy Paul Feb 14, 2000
Pundits of pain
In the wake of Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo, academics turn trauma studies into a hot discipline.
By Andreas Killen Feb 11, 2000
Buying time
Disability becomes fashionable among the prep-school set when it equals extra time on the SAT.
By Michael Scott Moore Feb 9, 2000
The tedious life of a T.A. serf
I wanted to learn to teach, but found myself buying Chanukah presents for a tenured dinosaur's niece.
By James Nestor Feb 7, 2000
"Rattling the Cage"
In his new book, animal rights law professor Steven Wise argues that chimps are persons too.
By Susan McCarthy Feb 4, 2000
Education in 2100: A professor's memoir
Looking back at the good ol' days of 2000.
By Brian Stempeck Feb 2, 2000
Smashing Violence
Violence studies is mobbed by students clamoring to shred "Pulp Fiction" and analyze suicide. But is this nascent field just intellectual rubbernecking?
By Annie Murphy Paul Jan 31, 2000
Trip lit
While scholars snip that travel writing doesn't merit inquiry, students like a vocation that screams vacation.
By Jason Wilson Jan 26, 2000
Turning Japanese
Are Japanese institutions designed to squash curiosity and spawn model citizens?
By Tom Bradley Jan 24, 2000
Skulls in the closet
What does membership in a bastion of privilege say about George W. Bush's character?
By Stephen Prothero Jan 21, 2000
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