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Len Gutkin

Baltimore, Washington, D.C.

Senior Editor @ChronicleReview. Author of *Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present* @uvapress.

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  • Social Research: An International Quarterly

    4 days ago | muse.jhu.edu | Len Gutkin

    The last decade of academic life has been witness to a peculiar species of moralizing whereby fierce political condemnations ("ritual anathematizations") of disciplines by their practitioners and of scholars by one another are deployed to authorize a comprehensive politicization of knowledge work.

  • Academic freedom in early modern England

    5 days ago | chronicle.com | Len Gutkin

    The most immediate wellspring for the institution of academic freedom, as it is understood in the United States, is in 19th-century Germany. But there are other, more remote sources as well.

  • Berkeley profs say the college discriminates

    1 week ago | chronicle.com | Len Gutkin

    A private University of California at Berkeley faculty survey (labeled “UC-FEYES: UC FACULTY EYES ONLY”) called the “Bearometer” finds that over half of respondents believe that “criticisms of higher education are valid.” One recurrent complaint: Faculty members worry that the university is not complying with antidiscrimination law when it comes to admissions and hiring.

  • Viewpoint diversity and the bureaucratized scholar

    2 weeks ago | chronicle.com | Len Gutkin

    Viewpoint diversity, for some years now a topic of interest to reform-minded scholarly groups like Heterodox Academy, is back in the news in a big way. That’s because its cultivation in colleges is one of the second Trump administration’s major demands. What does the government think it means?

  • The Arab Exception to DEI Hiring

    3 weeks ago | chronicle.com | Len Gutkin

    In an essay published in our pages last week, the literary critic Michael W. Clune perceives something surprising in a moment as unstable and hyper-polarized as ours: an emerging consensus on the part of both liberals and conservatives that big swaths of academic policy and culture had been degraded by activist politics and were in need of reform.

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Len Gutkin
Len Gutkin @GutkinLen
14 May 25

Hot Hawkes Summer

Literary Imagination
Literary Imagination @LI_ALSCW

Stay tuned for an appreciation of Hawkes (and, perforce, of Barnes) by @GutkinLen in the summer issue of @LI_ALSCW. The essay of the summer. You heard it here first.

Len Gutkin
Len Gutkin @GutkinLen
9 May 25

https://t.co/aDbmmJDcIB

Len Gutkin
Len Gutkin @GutkinLen
9 May 25

RT @NicoPerrino: BREAKING: "The Court orders the government to release Ms. Öztürk immediately"