Suggested Further Readings
John M. Ellis, Literature Lost: Social Science and the Corruption of the Humanities. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Gertrude Himmelfarb, The New History and the Old. Cambridge and London: Belknap imprint of Harvard University Press, 1987.
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Stephen H. Balch is president of the National Association of Scholars (NAS). He is a frequent contributor to Academic Questions, the journal of the NAS, which is available through the Transaction Periodicals Consortium.
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Balch, S.H. Consensus and fragmentation in the learned societies. Soc 36, 8–11 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-999-1019-3
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