From The Chronicle of Higher Education, the "veritas" about Harvard: What happens when the gods of high finance dump a gigantic pile of gold on the richest university in the world? A review of Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities by A. Lee Fritschler, Bruce L. R. Smith and Jeremy D. Mayer. From HNN, a review of For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom by Matthew W. Finkin and Robert C. Post and Save the World on Your Own Time by Stanley Fish. From TNR, unquiet flows the don: A review of Maurice Bowra: A Life by Leslie Mitchell. From NBER, research suggests the professors’ gender may perpetuate the gender gap. A review of How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment by Michele Lamont. Lessons learned at the racetrack: Anything that flip-flops the

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