The Other Danger… Scholasticism in Academic Research (10.1007/s12129-010-9192-9)
Lawrence M. Mead, New York University
Even as the academy is drowning in a glut of useless and poorly conducted research, researchers have narrowed their focus to the point of irrelevance within the real world. Prof. Lawrence Mead examines his own field of political science to pinpoint destructive aspects of scholasticism plaguing the social sciences (and mirrored throughout academia) and to describe the path productive scholarship actually takes.
A Counter-Curriculum for the Pop Culture Classroom (10.1007/s12129-010-9196-5)
Thomas F. Bertonneau, State University of New York at Oswego
“Popular culture” and “culture studies” have become mainstays of the humanities, and today mainly serve the “politically correct program of the academy’s existing dominant class.” Thomas Bertonneau offers a history of popular culture and, in describing the syllabus of his own course
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