Darkness in Anthropology: A Conversation with Napoleon Chagnon

Carol Iannone interviews the controversial anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon for Academic Questions.

Carol Iannone

Article

English Compositionism as Fraud and Failure

Jeffrey Zorn

Student Writing: Strategies to Reverse Ongoing Decline

Heather Harper and Michael J. Carter

In Defense of a Liberal Education: Criticizing the Critical

John Attard

The Fail-Proof Student

Janice Fiamengo

Does Online Education Rest on a Mistake?

Donald Philip Verene

Critically Thinking about Critical Thinking

Robert Weissberg

Editor’s Intro

Critical Thoughts in Critical Times

Carol Iannone

BAIAI

Books, Articles, and Items of Academic Interest

Robert L. Jackson

Review

College: Who Profits? Is College Worth It? A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education, by William J. Bennett and David Wilezol

Herbert I. London

Guiding toward the Good: Letters to a Young Progressive: How to Avoid Wasting Your Life Protesting Things You Don’t Understand, by Mike S. Adams

Michael Toscano

Review: Modern Madness: Review of Mind, Modernity, Madness: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience, by Liah Greenfeld

Peter Wood

Poetry

Poetry: “Too Much Talk” and “To the School Where I Was Once Headmaster”

David J. Rothman

Dialogue

What Does Bowdoin Teach?

Tom Klingenstein and Peter Wood

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