A new issue of Ephemera is out, including Burkard Sievers (Wuppertal): The Psychotic University; a discussion on the role of the business school; a review of Rakesh Khurana's From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession; and a review of Stanley Aronowitz's Against Schooling: For an Education That Matters. From Logos, Kurt Jacobsen (Chicago): Got No Culture: Anthropology confronts Counterinsurgency; Christine Kelly (William Paterson): If Not Now, When?: How Student Protest Can Help Save US Higher Education; and a review of Historians In Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower by Jon Wiener. The humanities move off campus: As the classical university unravels, students seek knowledge and know-how elsewhere. Cheating 2.0: Technology is catching cheats on college campuses — students don't like it. From Dissent, Jeffrey J. Williams on student debt and the spirit of indenture. From Conversations with History, an interview with Steven Chu. You know times are tough when the rich start cutting costs on their mistresses. City of Shards: A review of the novels of Elias Khoury. A review of The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel. From Fellowship, a look at why the culture of white privilege is to remain silent.
