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When The Wife asked me what I wanted for my birthday, I gave some of the usual answers, and a...

One of the policies my cc works under is a rule about “ability to benefit.” Basically, it means that we...

One of the two best college teachers I ever knew—an older Ph.D. candidate who became an adjunct himself here for...

A new correspondent writes: I'm a sophomore at a snooty-but-trying-not-to-be Private Liberal ArtsCollege who has recently discovered your blog and...

Dear Mayor Daley, I've seen some idiotic pronouncements over the years. “The insurgency is in its last throes,” “The Segway...

An alert reader noticed my passing comment in a post last week and wrote to ask why I would support...

One of the drawbacks of writing with a pen name is the restriction it places on topics. I can’t tell...

Since at least the early 20th century, it has been fashionable to attack college athletics as distorting the priorities of...