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Professor, Do Your Job

PICK UP THE mission statement of almost any college or university, and you will find claims and ambitions that will lead you to think that it is...
Policy Review, 08/01/08 by Fish, Stanley · More from publication
Access vs. quality in higher education

By STANLEY FISH

WHENEVER I'M asked, and sometimes even before I'm asked, I advise parents of college-age children to not send their...
The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA, 08/02/07 by STANLEY FISH · More from publication
Comparing home dream reports with reports from English and Welsh "Sacred sites".

"Sacred sites" are those geographical locations that a particular social group deems worthy of respect and veneration; typically, they are places...
ReVision, 03/22/06 by Devereux, Paul; Krippner, Stanley; Tartz, Robert; Fish, Adam · More from publication
Academic cross-dressing: how Intelligent Design gets its arguments from the left.(BRIEFINGS)

When George W. Bush said recently that evolution and Intelligent Design should be taught side by side, so that students "can understand what the...
Harper's Magazine, 12/01/05 by Fish, Stanley · More from publication
Postmodern warfare: the ignorance of our warrior intellectuals. (Essay).(Column)

Who would have thought, in those first few minutes, hours, days, that what we now call 9/11 was to become an event in the Culture Wars? Today,...
Harper's Magazine, 07/01/02 by Fish, Stanley · More from publication
Reverse racism, or how the pot got to call the kettle black

In America "whites once set themselves apart from blacks and claimed privileges for themselves while denying them to others," the author writes....
New Crisis, The, 01/01/00 by Fish, Stanley · More from publication

A Reply to J. Judd Owen.

Stanley Fish responds to criticism of his political work. Fish addresses what he feels is a misinterpretation of his views regarding the religious...
American Political Science Review, 12/01/99 by Fish, Stanley · More from publication
Before the Shooting Begins. - book reviews

I would guess that James Davison Hunter's Before the Shooting Begins (Free Press, 310pp) will be well-received if only because it strikes the...
Insight on the News, 05/16/94 by Stanley Fish · More from publication
Ivory-tower masochists.

From "The Unbearable Ugliness of Volvos," by Stanley Fish, in English Inside and Out: The Places of Literary Criticism, a collection of papers...
Harper's Magazine, 09/01/93 by Fish, Stanley · More from publication
Imposters in the Temple. - book reviews

Imposters in the Temple. Martin Anderson. Simon & Schuster, $22. In one of the many tales of academic foolishness chronicled in this exasperated...
Washington Monthly, 09/01/92 by Stanley Fish · More from publication