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There has to be a better way. I have what seems like thirty thousand logins, each requiring its own username...

Professor Lipton

It's specious, writes Philip Larkin in his fear-of-death poem, Aubade, for philosophers to tell us that No rational being Can...

Public Scholarship at CC's

This is really an exercise in idea-stealing, rather than a developed thought. Have you seen (or do you work at)...

My Funky Easy 1-Question (Okay, 2) Sociological Survey

I can explain later (or not), but I'm quite serious. Please answer the following: John or Paul, and why?

Me

Paul has said, famously, that the song “Yesterday” came to him in a dream. It was so complete that he...

Halfway

This week I ran into another of those "the policies make sense, but the application is silly" scenarios. A wonderful...

The Walk of Shame

This is a dirty little industry secret. In some necks of the woods -- moneyed ones, especially -- this is...

"An Enormous Wave of Philanthropy"

In a story in yesterday's IHE about for-profit companies taking over nonprofit colleges -- the gist of the story was...