# Turning academia into a cafeteria - Los Angeles Times

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The post examines how market language about choice enters academic discourse while questioning broad claims about the damage caused by such language.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 November 2005

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 23 November 2005
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: education, discourse-analysis, choice, metaphor.

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