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I often wonder if the academic conference is going the way of the dinosaurs. They are expensive, after all, and...

A new correspondent writes: I am currently on the administrative market. I've had one interview, and this topic did not...

Each suicide writes a new life storyWith obvious portents like something out of Dreiser Or like the junior high school...

A new correspondent writes: Recently I've noticed an increase of reports in the popular press proclaiming an "internship arms race"...

My previous post was perhaps not worse than a crime, but it was definitely a blunder. To go 0-for-2 in...

Comedy, it’s been said, is made possible by incomplete understanding. If one fully understood another’s suffering, the story would turn...

My daughter came home the other day with words that made my Math Geek heart leap for joy. She told...

Last night, after dinner, as The Wife, The Boy, The Girl, and I chat in the family room: TW: You...