HIRINGS AND TENURINGS
Who Got Hired Where. Tenurings and hirings to tenure, sorted by discipline. Junior hirings, sorted by discipline and graduate training.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Lingua Franca's readers weigh in on the mirror problem: Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down?

CONFERENCES
Upcoming Conferences

FIELD NOTES
Dissertation cam/
Y'all American/Dixie spat/and more

INSIDE PUBLISHING
The importance of being Ernst/
New Left renewed/Teletype tales/and more

BREAKTHROUGH BOOKS
The History of Television

HYPOTHESES
Jim Holt counts to a googolplex.

The Ex-Cons
During the Cold War, they cavorted with Thatcher and Reagan. Today they inveigh against the ravages of the free market. John Gray and Edward Luttwak defect to the left.
BY COREY ROBIN

The Born-Again Bible
For the most part, evangelical biblical scholars take the Dead Sea Scrolls as a godsend. But what if the scrolls suggest the Bible isn't what they think it is?
BY JEREMY LOTT

The Man With N-Ray Eyes
In 1903 René Blondlot discovered a form of radiation so elusive that he could see it only from the corner of his eye. Was it a scientific breakthrough, or just a trick of the light?
BY PAUL COLLINS

Union & Disunion
Graduate students complain that universities use them as cheap labor. Now they've won the right to unionize. Will higher education ever be the same? Lingua Franca holds a symposium.