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For those interviewing at MLA this year, here are links to a couple of dispatches I did for McSweeney's on...

I'm not sure when or why December 26 became Boxing Day but it always has been, at least in my...

Do you know the great children’s album The Bottle Let Me Down? Get it, even if you don’t have kids...

A recent "Grand Avenue" cartoon shows a grandmother and two kids standing in front of a store window. One kid...

A new correspondent writes: I wonder if you'd consider posting a query to your readers about job talk expectations at...

I recently started getting daily environmental digests from ScienceDaily. Each newsletter has more items in it than I have time...

The Boy and The Girl are hitting new milestones. Last week we took them to a local park, where Santa...

We economists have great respect for “markets”, the interaction of buyers and sellers of some good or service. While sometimes...