The advanced fragmentation of intellectual life in America means that personalities and issues that loom large in one field are often invisible in another. For the sociologist or the economist, the ...

Most people know a good sentence when they read one, but New York Times columnist Stanley Fish says most of us don't really know how to write them ourselves. His new book, How To Write A Sentence: And ...

I could write a book refuting the nonsense regularly expounded by New York Time’s columnist Stanley Fish. Oh, wait, I almost havewritten a book about it! I already commented on this blog regarding ...

We are now dealing with the problem child of the techo-utopian worship of data. By Stanley Fish Academic expertise does not entail political wisdom. By Stanley Fish In my last column, I find myself ...

Perhaps more prominent in recent years as a controversial legal theorist (The Trouble with Principle), soldier in the culture wars (There's No Such Thing as Free Speech and It's a Good Thing, Too) and ...

Stanley Fish is perhaps most famous for chipping away at the idea that texts have real meanings and moral principles matter, with all his deconstruction-y lit-crittery. But now he’s causing a new stir ...

The undisputed king of university sophists, the redoubtable Stanley Fish, has a cover story in the current Harper’s defending the brave professors who sallied forth after Sept. 11 to attack their own ...

Stanley Fish, the well-known literary theorist whose theories of interpretation became standard fare in law schools, will deliver a public lecture at Princeton University on at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec ...

I miss Stanley Fish’s column on the NYT’s website. In a new piece in HuffPo, the law professor and postmodernist provocateur points out the inconvenient truth that Justice Scalia was right about where ...

Florida International University professor and all around curmudgeon Stanley Fish is up to his old — and we do me old — tricks in the New York Times again. You might recall Fish’s classic work of ...

The following comments, about “A Solitary Thinker,” by Mark Bauerlein (The Chronicle Review, May 20), are from chronicle. com: Professor Stanley Fish’s tenure as the dean of the College of Liberal ...