What's the Big Idea?For the 10th-anniversary issue of The Chronicle Review, we asked scholars and illustrators to answer this question: What will be the defining idea of the coming decade, and why? |
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Jaron Lanier Daniel J. Solove Peter Singer Elaine Howard Ecklund Gwenda Kaczor Jonathan Haidt Parker J. Palmer Camille Paglia Yi-Fu Tuan Michael Glenwood Gibbs Daniel J. Cohen James Elkins Mary Beard Linda K. Kerber Geoffrey Moss Henry Petroski Alondra Nelson Brian Knutson Saleem H. Ali Steve Brodner Stephon H.S. Alexander Steven Landsburg Pat Shipman |
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Looking Back
We collected our favorite print covers from the past ten years. Relive the history of The Chronicle Review.
Recent Articles from The Review
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Will the Book Survive Generation Text?
Will the king of academe's text mountain be dethroned?
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College Love: John, Harvard, and Me
Some institutional attachments border on the obsessive.
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One Bad Apple, and the Threat To Science
The evolutionary psychologist Marc Hauser may have acted alone in his misconduct, but the effect cannot be confined to him alone.
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What Does Race Have to Do With It?
Making sense of our "national conversation" ought to involve the help of academics.
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Book on Skip Gates's Arrest Sidesteps the Perils of Profiling
In favoring symbols over substance, the author Charles Ogletree forgoes an opportunity to analyze racism in depth.
Our Favorite Essays of the Decade:
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The Trials of Tony Judt
The controversial historian remained outspoken even as ALS tightened its grip on him.
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Violence and the Remaking of a Self
After a brutal attack, the line between life and death seemed carelessly drawn and easily erased.
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The Hidden Lives of Oil
Few subjects open up the classroom to such varied perspectives on the world.
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Evolution and Literary Criticism
Literary critics might well profit by adding Darwinian analysis to their armory.
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'Dummy'
What the dummy class has to offer.
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Sex and the Conference
Yes, there is such a thing as monogamy. I'm not talking about that.
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Dwelling in Possibilities
This student generation is a singular one: Its members have a spectacular hunger for life and more life.
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Are Liner Notes Dead? Does It Matter?
As rich as liner notes sometimes were, and are, they too have built-in limitations.
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The End of Solitude
As everyone seeks more and broader connectivity, the still, small voice speaks only in silence, writes William Deresiewicz.
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50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Strunk and White's much-loved The Elements of Style. But Geoffrey K. Pullum won't be celebrating.
