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Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Dave Hansen is executive director of Authors Alliance. Thomas Leonard is university librarian emeritus and professor of journalism emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. We can, however, stand with Internet Archive as it fights for the right to buy, preserve and lend books, which is what libraries do.

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Is Poetry Dying?

Inside Higher Ed

Was it Dylan Thomas (“Do not go gently into that goodnight”)? Eliot, according to the essay’s author, Matthew Walther, not only made poetry more academic, obscure, and abstruse and stripped of rhyme and meter, he broke the link between poetry and nature, erasing poetry’s concern with the transcendent and the sublime.

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Stanford academic freedom event proceeds amid controversy

Inside Higher Ed

Referencing Cochrane’s additional complaint that liberals had been invited to speak but refused, speaker Jonathan Haidt, Heterodox Academy co-founder and Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Leonard N. A few speakers expressed faith that the current system can be bettered by students.