Stanley Fish is a professor in residence at the New College of Florida. He is the author of many books, including Law at the Movies, forthcoming from Oxford in 2024.
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The Review | Opinion
Academic administrators should keep their politics to themselves.
The Review
Arguments that they’re useful are wrong, anti-humanistic, and sure to backfire.
The Chronicle Review
Inviting more voices into the academic conversation can be anti-academic.
The Review
You don’t have the right to say whatever you want on a college campus.
The Review
The National Association of Scholars is right to oppose the “new civics,” but its solution is wrongheaded.
The Review
They don’t move mountains, they move minds. And the making of the arguments is its own reward.
The Review
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
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
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…
Advice
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…
