The Hunstville Times reports on an instructor recent running afoul of the authorities at the University of Alabama. Charles Christopher Horton was indicted on a felony ethics charge for requiring… Read more »

Let’s begin with a short quiz: Do you like power? Do you also like ignorance? Do you enjoy imposing your arbitrary wishes and paranoid half-opinions on the population of the… Read more »

You may remember when we reported on the fake Scholastic textbook scam, in which schools received phony invoices from “Scholastic School Supply LLC” for books they hadn’t actually purchased. The Daily… Read more »

For a company that’s won the coveted F rating from the Better Business Bureau, Scholastic School Supply isn’t giving up their dreams to scam money out of schools nationwide. They’re… Read more »

Following the field of textbook costs has been like watching the Titanic heading for the iceberg for a long time now. It’s a giant teetering business model that appears to… Read more »

In a last-ditch attempt to compete with online piracy, a new textbook rental service in Australia is planning to roll out delivery drones bring textbooks to students in as little… Read more »

The Second Amendment is perhaps the most contested passage in all of American literature; unsurprisingly a reader’s interpretation will often have more to do with their own political views than… Read more »

According to a New York Times journalist, America’s school children have been reading textbooks catering mostly to Texan sensibilities for decades. Gail Collins in the New York Review of Books… Read more »

Looks like a trip to Paris is in order. We should all go, as in immediately, and geek out over Chinese artist Liu Wei’s cityscape sculptures. Look at these things.… Read more »

Forty-five years ago Oxford University Press published the first edition of William H. McNeill’s survey, A World History. It’s still in print. Now in its fourth edition, the book has… Read more »