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My Chancellor's Crazy. And I Love It.
When I first heard about it, I said to myself, “How do I kill this idea?” My chancellor wanted to...
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Ask the Administrator: A Market-Clearing Wage?
Every so often I get a question that’s almost a guest post. In this one, a new correspondent opens a...
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Buying Books: A Predictive Equation
I buy lots of books. All this book buying is strange, as I have a world-class academic library steps away...
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Motherhood after tenure: Wisconsin, Never Let Me Go
Today was my last day of classes and finally it feels like spring in Wisconsin. While I do have exams...
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The Seduction of Belonging
In her well-known 1984 essay, “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals,” Carol Cohn writes of her...
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Election excitement
A few days ago I ran into a friend at a coffee shop, and as we waited in line for...
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The Religious Option
Faith-based colleges may offer good job opportunities -- and, in some cases, you need not share the faith of the college, writes Susan VanZanten.
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Atlas Shrunk
Ayn Rand's magnum opus took 54 years to put on the screen. Scott McLemee is underwhelmed by the result.