Over the past year, The Chronicle Review has published more than 200 essays, book reviews, and articles, written by professors, administrators, grad students, and journalists. We’ve met a polyamorous philosopher, a lecturer trying to save liberal democracy, a gadfly in the campus culture wars, and an avant-garde poet turned political investigator.
We observed a university literally burying its past, explored the alt-right’s Jane Austen, peered into the future of the university press, investigated a famous food laboratory, and pondered professorial wardrobe malfunctions, censorship on campus, and how universities embolden white nationalists.
Here, below, are 10 articles that strongly connected with readers in 2017. We think they’re worth another look.
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Free Speech Is Not an Academic Value
You don’t have the right to say whatever you want on a college campus. -
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Eyewitness to a Title IX Witch Trial
Northwestern University’s prosecution of Peter Ludlow was a purification ritual dressed up as a civilized hearing. -
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Anatomy of a Hoax
How the physicist Alan Sokal hoodwinked a group of humanists and why, 20 years later, it still matters. -
The Review
The Academic Home of Trumpism
This little circle of SoCal Straussians became the intellectual hub of Trumpism. -
The Chronicle Review
The Offender
Two students accused Michael Bonesteel of being insensitive, unsupportive, and even violent. Did the art professor get what he deserved — or were the students out to get him? -
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The CIA’s Favorite College President
Graham Spanier rolled out the red carpet for the intelligence services to conduct covert operations involving colleges. -
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When Universities Swallow Cities
Is it in the public interest to have giant urban campuses freeload off their neighbors’ taxes? -
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Commentary
Academe’s Poisonous Call-Out Culture
There are real, imminent threats to freedom and social justice. So why are scholars attacking an ally?
