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In my previous post I used a recalcitrant subject in an ethnography study, Widow X, as a symbol of all...

Events like commencements tend to connect me to family members I haven't seen in a while. In this case, an...

Both of these stories make sense on their own terms. But taken together, they neatly capture the basic dilemma in...

Recently, our college president spoke to the faculty. In her speech to us, she said that some economists think that...

I love Suze Orman; I can’t help it. Like her counterpart, Doctor Ruth, Orman speaks frankly about a charged topic...

Twice in the last month, I've been in meetings at which somebody suggested that the solution to some ongoing dilemma...

When my older daughter started elementary school, I asked about helping out occasionally in her classroom and I was politely...

In response to yesterday's post, several commenters asked variations on "well, okay, but what if the dean is a jackass...