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Is Academic Innovation Always a Good Thing?

October 12, 2021

As you may have noticed, the past few weeks have witnessed a remarkable outpouring of important new books calling for academic innovation, as experts including Arthur Levine, Scott Van Pelt, Robert Ubell, and others vie for attention.

I hope to write about those books in some forthcoming blog postings. But here I want to do something different and a bit risky: Offer a few words of caution about what often passes for academic innovation.

You might find my tone unsettling. The word I’d use to describe it is sardonic.

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