The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University (Issues of Our Time) - Menand, Louis

from MichaelDC

Much of what Menand writes is fairly obvious, but I still think it is important to actually see it in print. He is right that the current model of academia is not really working anymore, and it is still based on the 19th and early 20th-century model. I wish he offered some ideas for solutions to ...

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This short book is really a long essay, and while I found it engaging and thoughtful, it would have been better served if it had been expanded a bit for the book edition. I read it as a humanities scholar - fresh out of graduate school in philosophy, and heading into liberal arts education. I fit...

from vpfluke

This book is a good look into the world of academia and particularly at the humanities. The university system and its curricula in the United States went through a great transformation in the late nineteenth century, and this system is still inplace for the most part. The first chapte deals with ...

from cbobbitt

Menand's history of the development of core curricula at Columbia and Yale is the book's greatest strength.