James Axtell

It's been said recently, by a close student of the subject, that higher education in the United States is "the envy of the planet." But to the chorus of critics who have voiced their complaints over the past 10 or 15 years, such a claim would appea [...]

Unlike student-athletes, who seem to sprout annually and effortlessly from the scholastic soil, scholar-athletes are a somewhat rarer hybrid. They are relatively scarce because the resources needed to succeed in one endeavor are demanded by the ot [...]

Scholars in the humanities at least, and perhaps in the social sciences as well, are attracted to the academic life for many reasons, but the one magnet that draws them all is books. If they did not love to read, own, fondle, and, yes, show off boo [...]