The Notes Taken

It was amusing to read (at Lenin's Tomb ) of some recent infighting occasioned by a damning scholarly review of Robert Service's Tro...

Inside Higher Ed reports that an arbitrator has ruled that Florida State University fired twelve tenured professors in violation of its con...

Amy DePaul interviews Christopher Newfield, author of Unmaking the Public University , over at Alternet. Although I haven't read Newfiel...

I don't know about you, but when I wasn't (re-)reading Capital , I was spending a significant part of my summer trying to figure out...

Mark C. Taylor is at it again , proposing more non-solutions to haphazard diagnoses about the state of academia in the 21st century. Most re...

No surprise that the FBI was meddling in the life of Howard Zinn, historian, activist, and outspoken critic of US domestic and foreign polic...

For somebody who defended his dissertation last November and who successfully landed a contract to turn it into a book , I probably over-sch...

Students and staff continue to fight the Middlesex University administration's decision to shut down the department. Most recently they ...

This isn't a joke. I received this email today from Radical Philosophy , which operates out of Middlesex: Late on Monday 26 April, staf...

Not a bad week here at the Notes Taken , as Devin had a chance to satirize the Texas State Board of Education for its decision making proces...

The autumn of 2009 has witnessed an interesting upsurge in questions of women’s place in the study of philosophy. The season began with se...