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During the decades that the concept of human nature was taboo in academia, many scholars claimed that romantic love was a recent social construction. It was an invention of the Hallmark-card poets or Hollywood scriptwriters or, in one theory, medieval troubadours extolling the adulterous love of a knight for a lady...
...ideas germinate and spread on university campuses. Biographers say his experience as a professor during the student upheavals of the late 1960s - where he believed a godless pursuit of personal freedom was spiraling out of control - helped shape his view of contemporary secular culture and the current state of academia...
...true that these reforms are not urgent, delaying the discussion further is likely to push other topics further down the agenda. Indeed, these issues were to be discussed at the December meeting, which was instead dominated by a largely unproductive discussion about a motion concerning free speech in academia brought by anthropology and African American studies professor J. Lorand Matory ’82. The Faculty has a responsibility to the community to deal with issues that require their approval in a timely manner. The issues at hand have already been delayed on account of the Faculty. For instance, course...
...book—an analysis of the cultural impact of the Civil War’s 600,000 casualties—is the latest work in a remarkably broad scholarly career that has stirred praise and some controversy in academia...
...It’s no secret that conservatives are a relatively small minority in academia,” said Filipe R. Campante, an assistant professor at the Kennedy School of Government and a specialist in campaign contributions...