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The Hedgehog Review archives from March 2012
From the Editors
March 22, 2012... A SPECTER OF DETERMINISM SEEMS TO BE HANGING OVER EVERY ASPECT OF our lives. We are constantly told that we are being shaped by inexorable forces--biological, economic, technological, historical--against which resistance is more or less futile,...
The Corporate Professor
March 22, 2012... We've all heard about the corporatization of the university, the crisis in the humanities, and the claim that students only want job skills. Complaints about higher education are well-worn these days, and they don't seem to vary much. Where...
Under the sign of Satan: William Blake in the corporate University.
March 22, 2012... "I in my Selfhood am that Satan. I am that Evil One." --William Blake, "Milton" 1. Imagine waking up in a world gone wrong. You can feel it: things are out of joint. The center's not quite holding and all the rest. Yet imagine that...
Pressured and Measured: Professors at Wannabe
March 22, 2012... Life at Wannabe University is pretty wonderful these days. (1) Wannabe U is a flagship research university in the northern U.S., where I have been observing campus life--including academic ambitions, achievements, and follies--on and off for...
Do college teachers have to be scholars?
March 22, 2012... A fascinating op-ed piece from the March 6, 2009, issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education prompted me to ask my title question: do college teachers have to he scholars? The editorial, by Douglas Texter, is brashly titled, "No Tenure? No...
A bibliographic essay on the university, the market, and professors.
March 22, 2012... A torrent of literature on the ills of higher education has inundated the American landscape in recent years. One of the most frequent concerns is that people no longer see the university and its knowledge and degrees as a public good, but...
A conversation with Sherry Turkle.(Interview)
March 22, 2012... You've spoken of your book, Alone Together, as a book of repentance. I'm wondering if you could reflect on that statement, in particular as it relates to your two previous books, Life on the Screen and The Second Self. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...
Why Google Isn't Making Us Stupid ... or Smart
March 22, 2012... LAST YEAR THE ECONOMIST PUBLISHED A special report nor on the global financial crisis or the polarization of the American electorate, but on the era of big data. Article alter article cited one big number after another to bolster the claim that...
The trigger of history: capitalism, modernity, and the politics of place.
March 22, 2012... The Trigger of History Remember the promises of neoliberalism? Only a few years ago, neoliheral futurologists from Bill Gates to Thomas Friedman imagined a friction-free capitalism, powered by technology, generating wealth for all. The...
The Paradox of Hope: Journeys through a Clinical Borderland.
March 22, 2012... Cheryl Mattingly Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Anthropologist Cheryl Mattingly spent more than a decade following African American families with critically ill children in Los Angeles: moving...
A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle-Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America.
March 22, 2012... Grace Elizabeth Hale New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What did the actor James Dean have to do with the Baptist founder of the Moral Majority Terry Falwell? In her artfully rendered study, Grace Elizabeth...
The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West.
March 22, 2012... Lorenzo Vidino New York: Columbio University Press, 2010. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Muslim Brotherhood has been much in the news lately. Bur even as its candidates sweep round after round of Egypt's elections, most Westerners know...
2012 David Nathan Meyerson Prize for Fiction.
March 22, 2012... Named for the late David Nathan Meyerson (1967-1998), a therapist and talented writer who died before he was able to show to the greater world the full fruits of his literary potential, the Meyerson prize consists of $1,000 and publication in...
