Academic Questions articles from December 2000

Academic Questions archives from December 2000

LETTERS.
December 22, 2000... Frankly Awful To the editor, This letter concerns the article written by Robert Lerner and Althea Nagai titled "Reverse Discrimination by the Numbers," appearing in your summer 2000 issue. I must express my disappointment in the...

In Defense of Academic Freedom.
December 22, 2000... The University of Ghana, 1962-1965 The defense of academic freedom has been a vital, recurring theme throughout my career, not only in Europe and the United States, but also on the continent of Africa. In the spring of 1962 I was...

Either Feminism or Humanity.
December 22, 2000... The President and the Feminists In 1991, during his hearings for nomination to the Supreme Court, Clarence homes was subjected to an inquisition before the entire world without benefit of due process. His alleged offense was having made...

Confronting Relativism.
December 22, 2000... Editor's Note: This essay by William B. Irvine and the subsequent article by Charles Landesman are loosely tied by subject matter. They both address academic dimensions of morality. The former charts from its author's experience in the...

Can Moral Philosophy Teach Us Anything?
December 22, 2000... I Probably to most students of Moral Philosophy there comes a time when they feel a vague sense of dissatisfaction with the whole subject." This is how H. A. Pilchard introduced the problem of his famous 1912 essay "Does Moral Philosophy...

SUNY Debates Academic Freedom.(State University of New York)
December 22, 2000... The good news is that there is a large and growing awareness of the positions and activities of the National Association of Scholars, with many giving us public credit (sometimes grudging) for remaining faithful to such core principles as...

The Beleaguered College: Essays on Educational Reform.(Review)
December 22, 2000... The Beleaguered College: Essays on Educational Reform, by Joseph Tussman. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of Governmental Studies Press, 1997, 208 pp., $14.95 paperback. It is a jubilee year in educational writing when a...

Habits of Mind: The Experimental College Program at Berkeley.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Habits of Mind: The Experimental College Program at Berkeley, by Katherine Bernhardi Trow. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of Governmental Studies Press, 1998, 485 pp., $19.95 paperback. It is a jubilee year in educational...

Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences, by Ward Connerly. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2000, 286 pp., $24.95 hardbound. This is the story of a citizen propelled by circumstances reluctantly to take a leading role in the...

Gender and the Politics of History.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Gender and the Politics of History, by Joan Wallach Scott. New York: Columbia University Press, Revised Edition, 1999, 283 pp., $17.50 paperback. In the Spring 2000 issue of Academic Questions, David Kaiser concludes that the well-known...

The Human Stain.(Review)
December 22, 2000... The Human Stain, by Philip Roth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, 361 pp., $26.00 hardbound. Understandably enough Academic Questions does not, as a rule, review works of fiction. The Human Stain however is the kind of novel that has much...

Books, Articles, and Items of Academic Interest.
December 22, 2000... Literary Imagination, the Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, comes out three times a year and has been publishing since spring 1999. Blessedly free of "critical theory," it aims to "refocus literary studies on...