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Universities and colleges

The Neoliberal Arts

How college sold its soul to the market

To the long list of American institutions that have withered since the dawn of the 1980s—?journalism, organized labor, mainline Protestantism, small-town merchants—?it may be time to add another: college-level humanities.…

Wrong Answer

by Nicholson Baker,

The case against Algebra II

Piggy Bank

by William Styron,

From a June 8, 1972, letter by William Styron to Frederick Exley, the author of A Fan’s Notes, who was a guest lecturer at the University of Iowa that year.…

A matter of degrees

by Thomas Frank,

Jurists’ prudence

by Melvin Schweitzer,

The Price of Admission

by Thomas Frank,

Stumped Speech

by Chris Haire,

Voodoo Academics

by Christopher Beha,

Brandeis University's hard lesson in the real economy

Dehumanized

by Mark Slouka,

When math and science rule the school

Shirts and skins

by Harper’s Staff,

Universities and colleges

The Neoliberal Arts

Course Corrections

Wrong Answer

Piggy Bank

A matter of degrees

Jurists’ prudence

The Price of Admission

Stumped Speech

Voodoo Academics

Dehumanized

Shirts and skins

Debug

Universities and colleges

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The Neoliberal Arts

Course Corrections

Wrong Answer

Piggy Bank

A matter of degrees

Jurists’ prudence

The Price of Admission

Stumped Speech

Voodoo Academics

Dehumanized

Shirts and skins

March 2009

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