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One of America's most incisive public intellectuals offers a provocative argument about the true role of higher education
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Stanley Fish is currently Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law at Florida International University in Miami and Dean Emeritus at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of ten books--including Is There a Text in this Class--and a frequent contributor to The New York Times, New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Atlantic, Esquire, Slate, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Fish writes the "Think Again" blog for the opinion section of the New York Times.
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