In a 1976 essay — “Interpreting the Variorum,” published in Critical Inquiry — I coined the term “interpretive community.” An interpretive community is not made up of persons who, because they share ...

As you may know, John Eastman, the 2020-21 Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy at the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization, has published an essay in Newsweek arguing ...

“For-profit online program management companies provide positive value for institutions and students.” Please debate. No, really. We want to have these arguments. Argument is essential for the ...

Writing assignments at the university level often require an academic voice. There are certain aspects of academic voice that are more formal than every day, conversational speech. Typically, academic ...

Perhaps the greatest challenge to academe in the current political environment is the ascendancy of a “post-truth,” “alternative fact,” “fake news” culture, in which claims are detached from evidence ...