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I don't want to think about the crude oil currently spewing into the Gulf of Mexico. I'd much rather think...

After about a year of serving as Assistant Provost, the Provost called me in and indicated that he was more...

So Nobel laureate Michael Beard assures us all of the the inevitability and consequences of global warming, in Ian McEwan's...

This Saturday The Girl had her first t-ball game. T-ball, for the uninitiated, is a version of baseball in which...

“Henry Adams’s” most recent “Academic Bait-and-Switch” column in The Chronicle, in which he discusses all of his misguided reasons for...

A new correspondent writes: I work in an English Department at a mid-sized community college and currently chair a search...

Check out Steve Jobs' open letter on why Apple does not allow Flash on its mobile devices. Jobs gives a...

I remember my comprehensive exams in graduate school as the low point of that experience. Classes were fun, and I...