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The PRC Read My Blog! :-)

The New York Times reports today that China has created an agency devoted to the Internet. "China Creates New Agency...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Election excitement

A few days ago I ran into a friend at a coffee shop, and as we waited in line for...

Atlas Shrunk

Ayn Rand's magnum opus took 54 years to put on the screen. Scott McLemee is underwhelmed by the result.