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Champaign-Urbana is not a small town, though it’s often thought of as one. It’s actually two cities, of course, with...

Tim Burke and Chad Orzel have recently posted some helpful thoughts on tenure and its assumptions. This paragraph of Chad's...

... is that you do talk about Scrap Club. According to a piece that I heard on public radio this...

"Proles," explains Paul Fussell in his book Class, "like to use words that normally appear only in newspapers. They don't...

An alert reader sent me a link to these articles in the Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle, detailing the goings-on...

One of the added benefits (for me, anyway) of revealing my real name is being able to share other published...

Every election year, we start to get proposals for various national service programs as ways to pay for college. The...

First the announcement: the RSS feed is fixed. Those of you who aren't into RSS don't care, but some of...