From Daedalus, a special issue on reflecting on the humanities. End the University as We Know It: If higher education is to thrive, colleges and universities, like Wall Street and Detroit, must be rigorously regulated and completely restructured. Mark Bauerlein on Gerald Graff's last counsel. From BMCR, a review of Gerald M. Mara's The Civic Conversations of Thucydides and Plato: Classical Political Philosophy and the Limits of Democracy; and a review of Josiah Ober's Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens. Joanne Creighton on why we need women's colleges. From Campus Progress, the death of women’s colleges: Single-sex institutions are becoming less and less popular, but they have a long and proud history; and from Cinderella to Spider-Man: Five sexist stereotypes in modern-day films that get to the heart of gender inequalities. An interview with Michelle Goldberg, author of The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World (and a review and more and more and more and an excerpt). From Popular Science, an essay on The Future of the Military — Perhaps. The introduction to Philosophical Essays, Volume 2: The Philosophical Significance of Language by Scott Soames. Gay Thai monks are told to curb their flamboyant behaviour.
