A group of scholars, led by a Berkeley law prof, challenge academic authors to take a harder look at the proposed deal between Google and the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers over Google's book-scanning program. I write about their warning in my latest Hot Type column. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
Writing
“In Thrilling Find, Scholar Unearths Long-Lost Letters of Benjamin Franklin”
A UC-San Diego political scientist makes what he calls the find of a lifetime in the British Library. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Quick Critics: Speeding Up the Publication of Reviews From Years to Months”
It might take two years (or more) to write a scholarly monograph, but it shouldn't take two years for it to get reviewed. One literary scholar has a plan to rev up the metabolism of academic reviewing. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Meat the Dilemma”
My review of Jeffrey Moussaief Masson's The Face on Your Plate and Mark Caro's The Foie Gras Wars, both of which make a strong case, in very different ways, that we need to think harder about what (or who) we eat. Read More at The Washington Post »
“A Digital Window on the Medieval World”
Hundreds of medieval manuscripts are now at your fingertips, no matter where you are. Read More at Wired Campus (CHE) »
