The Issue at a Glance

An American Sophist: The Surprising Career of Stanley Fish (10.1007/s12129-008-9074-6)

David J. Rothman, University of Colorado, Boulder

From literary theorist to university administrator to New York Times blogger and social critic, Stanley Fish has risen from simple beginnings as a specialist in English Renaissance poetry to ride the ideological foam of all things cutting edge. David Rothman examines the provocative ideas behind the life’s work of one of the academy’s most celebrated performers.

Feminizing Science: The Alchemy of Title IX (10.1007/s12129-008-9075-5)

Patricia Hausman

Patricia Hausman scrutinizes the National Academy of Sciences report Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineeringand its dangerous call to place the sciences under the sledgehammer of Title IX. Her findings: A one-sided, inaccurate, and internally contradictory report prepared by a committee lacking appropriate scientific