Opinion

Our friend Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin says there are three kinds of exhaustion: “Exhaustion caused by muscular fatigue, exhaustion caused by...

Yesterday I met with the new chair of my department to tie up loose ends, hand over some paperwork, and...

With classes starting any minute now – I can see the dorsal fin in the water – the folks in...

Bell Curve author Charles Murray takes direct aim at higher education in his new book Real Education by asserting that...

With the enactment of a new GI Bill, the time has come to once again recall former University of Chicago...

When I think about information, I usually think about it at rest. Kind of like, when I think about water...

I have a new dispatch up at McSweeney's today, in which I prove myself to be the monster that so...

Texting and instant messaging are the wave of the future? Scott McLemee is just too ecstatic.