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Defense of academic freedom has waned, and free speech is under duress not only at pseudo-universities and near-universities but especially at such bastions of academic excellence as Harvard and Berkeley, writes Loren Lomasky in Reason...[more]
LFDaily Archive
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LF's roundup of book reviews. See who said what about new titles of interest.
This week: Donald Bogle's Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television
The BiblioFile Archive
Our Three Year Compendium!
For the first time ever, Lingua Franca publishes a three year collection of our exclusive and comprehensive listings of junior hirings.
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Who Got Hired Where
At long last, the definitive guide is here!
Look inside for Lingua Franca's complete listing of Tenurings,
Hirings to Tenure and Junior Hirings from 2000-2001.
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In September 2000, Lingua Franca celebrated ten years of covering the highs and lows of academic life. Take a look into the highlights from our archives:
The Best of Lingua Franca: ten of our favorite articles from our first ten years.
A few of the themes that defined the decade:
* Academic Computing
* Gender & Sexuality
* Labor & Tenure
* Theory and its Discontents
* Post Cold War Politics
More from our archives
The Lingua Franca Timeline: Our Guide to Academia's Past Decade.
* You Must Remember This...
Also:
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The results of our reader poll! "The best academic books of the nineties":
* The Winners
* Selected Reader Responses
* The Nominees
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Marxist Literary Critics Are Following Me!: Science fiction guru Philip K. Dick became a hero to radical literary theorists. But he thought those theorists were communist conspirators. So he contacted the FBI.
Also:
The Invisible Woman: In 1925, Florence Deeks unsuccessfully sued H.G. Wells for "literary piracy." Today, a historian reconsiders her case.
Go North, Young Man: More than fifty thousand young Americans fled to Canada to avoid fighting in the Vietnam War. What became of them?
Hypotheses: Jim Holt on wishing you had never been born.
Breakthrough Books: Five scholars recommend the best recent books on the world of work.
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Lingua Franca's listing of upcoming conferences and events
The Sokal Hoax: an anthology of responses from around the world to the sham
that shook the academy.
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Visit Bookworm, our new set of resources for academic readers and writers.
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