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I'm a big fan of LinkedIn. It's often my go-to social media site for professional networking, recommendations, and group discussions...

This weekend I paid for last weekend’s pleasures by working more than I usually do. I had papers to grade...

Teaching is at the heart of what I do in the humanities, both in my self-conception as “teacher-scholar” and in...

(Note to my readers: sorry about last week. Life intervened much more than I expected it to. Now, back to...

Do you know the story of the Potemkin Villages? Russian Minister Gregory Potyomkin allegedly ordered the building of fake villages...

We don't notice infrastructure until it fails. In my case, I never noticed utility poles until I moved to a...

In coming back to my office from a University Lecture, I cut through a main administrative parking lot. The lot...

A reader alerted me to this article in the New Haven Register because of its pertinence to the continuing discussion...