What could have been fruitful academic debates became personal and nasty.
"People were making that case in serious academic debates," she said.
Academic debates about citizenship and multiculturalism have been going on for a quarter of a century or more.
Without even trying, "Work of Art" resurrects academic debates of the 1980s and '90s as it implicitly asks us to determine what kind of art has more value.
Yet he is also the innovator who installed broadband Internet access at the Communist Party school and encouraged academic debates about democracy and separation of powers.
It's a literary experiment, however accidental or forced by circumstance, that shatters through stale academic debates about authorial intent and semantic autonomy.
Despite continuing academic debates, other commercial enterprises are rushing in to offer an array of "brain building" games that make bold promises to improve all kinds of cognitive abilities.
Academic debates around the origins of Islam in seventh-century Mecca, in particular the relation of its first followers to their Jewish, Christian and pagan neighbours, briefly swept into the mainstream thanks to historian Tom Holland.
Yet, since Deng Xiaoping died in February, a bolder tone has coloured academic debates about China's rotten state sector, where myriad attempts to improve performance under socialist ownership have merely underlined the sector's awfulness.
The scale of the Prime Minister's defeat was due to a huge turnout by scientific and medical dons, who rarely take part in academic debates but have been roused by the effects of government economic cuts on their research.
Those who criticize Russia for mismanagement of Chechnya are not turning a blind eye to the horrors of the massacre or retreating into simplistic or academic debates about Russian misdeeds.
