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Archive for March, 2009

liberal arts 2.0

Posted in Current Issues, Miscellany, Thought Drafts on March 18, 2009 | 7 Comments »

some time ago (by which I mean, nearly two months ago now), certain smart & savvy nooks of the internet were all abuzz with the New Liberal Arts. It’s time, they say, to rethink what we want our liberal arts education to do for us in this twenty-first century world, in which our present curricula [...]

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links for 2009-03-18

Posted in Links on March 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

LRB ยท Stefan Collini: HiEdBiz
fabulously biting article on the miserable state of higher education in Britain, by that doyen of smart snark, Stefan Collini
(tags: stefancollini academia lrb awesome snark via:adammyers)

Intellectuals at the Gates by Adam Kirsch, City Journal
Kirsch reviews Charles Kurzman's new book, 'Democracy Denied: Intellectuals and the Fate of Democracy 1905-1915' – intellectuals who [...]

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fragile things

Posted in Archive Thinking on March 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »

[first posted on HNN]
If you haven’t already heard: an archivist’s and historian’s nightmare has transpired in the city of Cologne. A treasure trove of 65,000 original documents dating from the year 922, including a clutch of Karl Marx manuscripts, letters by Hegel, the personal papers of West Germany’s first Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and an unbroken [...]

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