- Section
- Deane’s Library
- Type
- Book
- Pages
- 272
- Author
- Richard Arum
- Published
- 2011
- Tags
- higher-education, education, learning, critical-thinking
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
- Section
- Deane’s Library
- Type
- Book Review
- Pages
- 352
- Author
- Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt
- Published
- 2018
- Date
- Tags
- critical-thinking, psychology, race, higher-education
TLDR: “An excellent, rational book that will be ignored by everyone who really needs to read it”
The Death Of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
- Section
- Deane’s Library
- Type
- Book Review
- Pages
- 272
- Author
- Thomas M. Nichols
- Published
- 2017
- Date
- Tags
- society, politics, education, higher-education
“This is essentially a long-form rant against the fact that (1) people think they’re experts when they’re clearly not, and (2) they tend to look down on actual expertise and distrust experts. It was both inspiring and infuriating. The author writes well, but he offered no solutions. So, take it for…”
The Higher Education Bubble
- Section
- Deane’s Library
- Type
- Book
- Pages
- 56
- Author
- Glenn Harlan Reynolds
- Published
- 2012
- Tags
- higher-education, education
The Last Intellectuals: American Culture In The Age Of Academe
- Section
- Deane’s Library
- Type
- Book Review
- Pages
- 290
- Author
- Tamar Jacoby
- Published
- 1987
- Date
- Tags
- higher-education
TLDR: “Sort of interesting, but maybe obsolete”
That Hideous Strength
- Section
- Deane’s Library
- Type
- Book
- Pages
- 379
- Author
- C.S. Lewis
- Published
- 1945
- Tags
- fiction, science-fiction, dystopian, fantasy, higher-education