In Race Matters, Cornel West anticipates a dilemma that continues to shape American intellectual life. He observes that the massive growth of the Academy over the past several decades, fueled by significant federal investment in higher learning, has transformed it into a “world in itself” and the primary custodian of the nation’s intellectual talent. Because […] The post A Call to Public Scholars During Turbulent Times first appeared on Blog of the APA.| Blog of the APA
The Tangier smoke cat catches a piece of meat in his front paws like a monkey…my little monkey beast. The white cat rubs his way towards me, tentative, hoping. William S. Borroughs, The Cat Inside (93). I used to live in Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and commute to work to Aachen (Germany), where I would stay…| Blog of the APA
When I was thirty, I told some coworkers about my plan to enter grad school to become a psychotherapist. We were technical writers for a large insurance company. “We used to have such dreams,” one of them sighed as the others nodded. “But you have to pay the bills and keep to what you know.”…| Blog of the APA
