Stanley Fish
Contributor
Stanley Fish is a professor of law at Florida International University. He was formerly dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago and executive editor of Duke University Press.
Stories by this Author
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The ReviewStop Trying to Sell the Humanities
Arguments that they’re useful are wrong, anti-humanistic, and sure to backfire. -
The Chronicle Review
How Not to Dismantle the Old-Boy Network
Inviting more voices into the academic conversation can be anti-academic. -
The Review
Free Speech Is Not an Academic Value
You don’t have the right to say whatever you want on a college campus. -
The Review
Citizen Formation Is Not Our Job
The National Association of Scholars is right to oppose the “new civics,” but its solution is wrongheaded. -
The Review
How to Win an Academic Argument
They don’t move mountains, they move minds. And the making of the arguments is its own reward. -
The Review
Academic Freedom Is Not a Divine Right
Is academic freedom a philosophical concept tied to larger concepts of individual dignity and autonomy, or is it a guild concept developed in an effort to insulate the enterprise from the threat of a hostile takeover? I come down on the side of guild concept. Academic freedom is not a subset of… -
The Review
The Trouble With Tolerance
Some years ago, just after Salman Rushdie was made the object of a fatwa, I found myself at an academic conference listening to a panel address the issues raised by his situation. A member of the audience rose and, without a trace of irony, gave voice to this question/accusation: “What’s the matter… -
The Review
Chickens: the Ward Churchill and Larry Summers Story
It’s fair to say, I think, that at the present moment, the two most famous academics in the country are Larry Summers and Ward Churchill. Larry Summers is the president of Harvard University, and so his fame is no surprise: Everyone with any interest at all in higher education knows who the… -
News
Where Have You Gone, Stanley Fish?
Related articles: View all of the articles and commentary from this special supplement on personal finance and retirementSupplement in print: Order print copies of personal finance and retirement supplements from February 2004 and April 2005 The short answer is “to Florida.” Sometime in the next… -
Advice
Where Have You Gone, Stanley Fish?
The short answer is “to Florida.” Sometime in the next six or seven months (depending on when, or whether, we succeed in selling our apartment in Chicago) Jane Tompkins and I will pack up our worldly goods, put the cat and the dog into the station wagon, and head south to Delray Beach where waiting…
