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I'm going to miss the New York Times. Without the Times, I'll be a less informed educator, citizen and parent...

Following up on yesterday’s post, a regular correspondent writes: In your latest blog post you lament the lifetime employment nature...

I like tigers. The animal, that is, not the human variety that has cropped up lately. Amy Chua’s book “...

I have a soft spot for hard news. Every year, at around this time, I have students read the Society...

I usually enjoy reading comments to my columns, and my column from last week was no exception. I picked up...

As I write this post on a plane back to Oregon from Philadelphia I am struck by the immense amount...

In most non-tenure based settings, managers use “progressive discipline” to address many employee issues. Progressive discipline is the practice of...

“One baby, one book,” my adviser told me, when as an ambitious, twenty-three-year-old, Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University, I announced...