I feel compelled to read about the implosion of academia, having myself quit higher-ed as a profession in favor of more hands-on policy work. Any destruction is morbidly fascinating; self-caused ones, ...
Recently, a leading editor at a major academic press said bluntly that she wasn’t aware of any breakthrough scholars in U.S. history under the age of 50. In response, I mentioned several names of ...
Before we dive into the list of colleges and universities, or anything else about the mother discipline. Imagine entering into the very first classroom of a university in history, which offered no ...
With a handful of exceptions, scholarship practice and scholastic power continue to be driven by traditional discovery-based projects published in scarcity-model repositories, despite a growing ...
African history has gone through many incarnations as an academic discipline. Most recently, there’s been a global turn in African historiography. This shift has been prompted by a greater awareness ...
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The useless disciplines

No academic discipline is inherently useless, arguesI have borrowed this title from Allan Douglas Galloway, a Scottish Professor of Theology who taught at University College Ibadan in the 1950s. At ...
On September 30, AEI’s Joshua T. Katz hosted the second event in a series on the academic disciplines, focusing on the discipline of English. After a brief introduction from Dr. Katz, each panelist ...
Nanotechnology is multidisciplinary and encompasses knowledge from many different fields of study, including physics, engineering and materials science. Although nanotechnology's impact in various ...