‘The Academy Is Largely Itself Responsible for Its Own Peril’

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. ‘The Academy Is Largely Itself Responsible for Its Own Peril’
Evan Goldstein, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2018/11/14
This is an excellent interview with historian Jill Lepore, who has just released These Truths, a sweeping history of the United States from Columbus to Trump "asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them" (of course one truth would have been to start a few centuries earlier, but I digress). More...