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I've taken my headline from a piece in today's Wall Street Journal about Democratic Senator Jim Webb of Virginia, about...

My son Starbuck, who’s six, is home a lot this summer, so I figured we might find some time to...

1. Low boredom threshold “The book was the worst…no just the first couple of pages. I skimmed a summary on...

A commenter to yesterday's post about compensating staff made a point I've wondered about before. It's worth contemplating – not...

A returning correspondent writes: The vice president who oversees the majority of support staff at my SLAC is constructing a...

Last Friday, an impromptu conversation in the mailroom at my University jolted my pulse into my aerobic zone. I might...

Non-traditional academics have many skills different from the general population of "parent volunteers" at an elementary school. This provides a...

Water is energy. Not literally, of course (the square of the speed of light notwithstanding), but practically. Naturally moving water...