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... be very afraid!
Like everybody else, I'm following what's happening in Washington with regard to the possible bailout of financial markets. What strikes...
WHO KILLED DAVID FOSTER WALLACE?
Suicides, especially the suicides of sensitive writers we love (Virginia Woolf, Randall Jarrell, Sylvia Plath, David Foster Wallace), are a...
Don't Go Changing
Barack Obama’s campaign slogan, “Change we can believe in,” will never be mistaken for a classic of the genre. It...
Bumper Stickers? Really?
Some issues are difficult. They feature the conflict of valid goods, a shortage of critical resources, or clashes of identity...
The Anti-Intellectual Presidency
A new book looks at the dumbing-down of American politics. Scott McLemee is surprised it's in one volume.
Well, Duh...
A new report from the American Council on Education (see it here) entitled "Too Many Rungs on the Ladder? Faculty...
ABCs and PhDs: Kindergarten
These last few weeks starting kindergarten have been hard! I remember this from my older daughter too; the adjustment is...
Sneaking in after hours
An article by Elizabeth Redden in yesterday's IHE noted that more than half of the charter signatories to the ACUPCC...