Focus: Late Academe
Volume 45, Number 4
Winter 2024
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From the Editor
Valuing the Humanities by Jeffrey Di Leo
Focus: Late Academe
Preface to Late Academe by Jeffrey R. Leo and Daniel T. O’Hara
The Menace of Hedge Fund Universities in a Time of Civic Crisis by Henry R. Giroux
Just Academe by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Visionary Innocence: On American “Self-Election” by Daniel T. O’Hara
The Future of the Humanities: A Defense of Academic Knowledge Production by Christopher Breu
MAGA Politics, the American University, and the Ecosystem of Knowledge by Christian Moraru
Aniara Diary by Anthony Madrid
Fiction
Rene Marzuk reviews The Glint of Light by Clarence Major
Tony Ardizzone reviews While It Lasts by Scott Nadelson
Printers and Poets
Unfinished Words by Charles Alexander
From Our Own
Michael Joyce reviews Whatever’s Forbidden the Wise by Anthony Madrid
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
