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My daughter is at the age where she likes to hear stories about my childhood. “Tell me a story about...

In the discussion after the post about counteroffers a couple of days ago, several commenters raised the issue of salary...

Scott McLemee's recent consideration of the writer Isaac Rosenfeld in his IHE column, Intellectual Affairs, reawakens my own long fascination...

According to a paper appearing in the International Journal of Global Warming, the problem isn't greenhouse gases. To be more...

My husband and I got a babysitter a couple nights ago and we went for a walk around a popular...

I just got the first details on President Obama's American Graduation Initiative, his project intended to almost double the number...

I don’t do counteroffers. That’s not just a quirk of mine; my college doesn’t do them. It’s a policy I’m...

It's a commonplace to joke about the linguistic divisions between the English and Americans. We may share a language, American...