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- Resisting the Urge to Profess http://www.chronicle.com/article/Resisting-the-Urge-to-Profess/238130 4 comments
- Can Transcendence Be Taught? http://www.chronicle.com/article/Can-Transcendence-Be-Taught-/237994 74 comments
- On Not Reading http://www.chronicle.com/article/On-Refusing-to-Read/237717 91 comments
- The Labors of Leisure http://chronicle.com/article/Time-to-Imagine/149395 28 comments
- Why Academics Stink at Writing http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Academics-Writing-Stinks/148989 2 comments
- What the Head of Hiring at Google Doesn’t Understand About Skills http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/05/28/what-the-head-of-hiring-at-google-doesnt-understand-about-skills/?cid=wc 125 comments
- Capital Man: Thomas Piketty is economics’ biggest sensation and fiercest critic http://chronicle.com/article/Capital-Man/146059 193 comments
- Why Some Elite Colleges Give Away Courses Online http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Some-Elite-Colleges-Give/125998/?sid=wc 32 comments
- Mistreated as Student, Alum Donates $10m for $30k Prizes to 'Nice' Professors http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Mistreated-as-a-Student-an/24841/ 27 comments
- A Bus Carrying an HBCU’s Lacrosse Team Was Pulled Over. Deputies Searched It for Drugs. https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-bus-carrying-an-hbcus-lacrosse-team-was-pulled-over-deputies-searched-it-for-drugs 28 comments politics
- Why Conservatives Love War https://www.chronicle.com/article/inherently-violent-why/125023 5 comments politics
- Can Social Science Tell Us How Much Gerrymandering Is Too Much? http://www.chronicle.com/article/can-social-science-tell-us-how/241407 21 comments politics
- The Great Shame of Our Profession: How the humanities survive on exploitation http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Great-Shame-of-Our/239148?utm_content=buffere76dc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer 13 comments books
- A Challenge for Mental-Health Experts: Should They Weigh In on Trump? http://www.chronicle.com/article/a-challenge-for-mental-health/238199 4 comments politics
- 'One Trigger Finger for Whites and Another for Blacks': What the Research Says http://chronicle.com/article/one-trigger-finger-for-whites/237057 13 comments politics
- Hillary Clinton Pledges 3-Month Moratorium on Student-Loan Payments http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/hillary-clinton-pledges-3-month-moratorium-on-student-loan-payments/112657 18 comments politics
- Nobody Should Have to Pay to Go to College http://chronicle.com/article/nobody-should-have-to-pay-to/234612 15 comments politics
- Do We Cheapen Philosophy When We Use It as Therapy? http://chronicle.com/article/do-we-cheapen-philosophy-when/231825/ 6 comments philosophy
- Moral in Tooth and Claw: Morality extends beyond humans and can be found in the behavior of many other species http://chronicle.com/article/moral-in-toothclaw/48800/ 243 comments philosophy
- NSF-Backed Scientists Raise Alarm Over Deepening Congressional Inquiry. "It saddens me that elected officials are attacking science in this way," http://chronicle.com/article/nsf-backed-scientists-raise/149407/?key=twxzjavgyczfnhbhbdssm2wab3vtob9xzcvkay4gblbcfw== 17 comments politics
- Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/ 15 comments privacy
- Sheister pseudo open-access publisher threatens to sue science blogger for $1B for exposing their crooked-as-a-dog's leg business model. http://chronicle.com/article/publisher-threatens-to-sue/139243/ 13 comments science
- Millions of Graduates Hold Jobs That Don't Require a College Degree, Report Says http://chronicle.com/article/millions-of-graduates-hold/136879/ 4 comments politics
- The European Atrocity You Never Heard About https://chronicle.com/article/the-european-atrocity-you/132123 42 comments history
- Open-source textbook company sued by three major publishers. http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/3-major-publishers-sue-open-education-textbook-start-up 120 comments technology
- Teaching and Human Memory, Part I - most schools are using an out-of-date, no longer supported teaching model. "You can't understand how a memory component works," Miller writes, "until you understand what it is for." [x-post from /r/psychology] http://chronicle.com/article/teachinghuman-memory/129778/ 3 comments science
- Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets http://chronicle.com/article/fear-of-repression-spurs/129049 11 comments politics
- Reddit, read this sentence"Students at for-profit colleges, who make up about 10 percent of the nation's college enrollments, accounted for nearly half of all the defaults—47 percent—the draft data show. A year earlier, that proportion was 43 percent." http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/127602/ 3 comments reddit.com
- Does anyone believe that there may be a "degree bubble"? As the costs of higher education rise at an alarming rate, the value of degrees could be diminishing. http://chronicle.com/article/will-higher-education-be-the/44400 11 comments economy
- While they're happy to continue spending money on war house republicans are equally happy setting deep targets for budget cuts for universities. http://chronicle.com/article/house-republicans-set-deep/126249/ 6 comments politics
- Anthropologists Debate Whether 'Science' Is a Part of Their Mission http://chronicle.com/article/anthropologists-debate-whether/125571/ 7 comments science
- The Shadow Scholar: The man who writes your students' papers tells his story http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125329/ 5 comments reddit.com
- The End of Human Specialness http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/124124/ 11 comments philosophy
- 'A Confederacy of Dunces,' Still Strong at 30 http://chronicle.com/blogPost/A-Confederacy-of-Dunces/24140/ 16 comments books
- Soccer Conquers the World: Average attendance at the 1994 World Cup, held in the United States, was just under 70,000—still the highest ever in any country. American television viewership for the last World Cup, in 2006, was up 90 percent over 2002. http://chronicle.com/article/soccer-conquers-the-world/65681/ 9 comments soccer
- The soul has been a dead end in philosophy ever since the positivists unmasked its empty referential center. http://chronicle.com/article/soul-talk/65278/ 177 comments philosophy
- Education makes people more liberal (though not smarter about civics), shows report http://chronicle.com/article/college-makes-students-more/64040/ 6 comments politics
- Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2009/01/2009013001c.htm 177 comments philosophy
- Malcom Gladwell: Harvard, Yale, and Princeton should be shut down http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=x7hxmlb7q48y8c0jbtzj2zvsf42q39q1 2 comments reddit.com
- Daniel Dennett: Common-Sense Religion http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=gbdwrbbqwpybgvmjskzwnckvrmkwqvvv 8 comments reddit.com