On April 7, 2003, less than three weeks into America’s invasion of Iraq, Bruno Latour worried aloud, in a lecture at Stanford, that scholars and intellectuals had themselves become too combative.

It’s perfectly acceptable to design college courses, and even entire degrees, around women or minorities, but devote one course to how men are treated in literature — not even in society, but ...

A survey conducted among the literary world's elite was accused of political correctness yesterday after naming Beloved, Toni Morrison's slavery epic, as the greatest American novel of the past 25 ...