Opinion

Peter Porter, a poet born in Australia but resident mainly in England, has died, at 81. Here's one of his...

Some 25 years ago, a quasi-country quartet calling themselves "The Girls Next Door" had a moderate hit with a ditty...

“Indicators” are released to provide data on students, faculty and American life.

When a professor supervises student work at an outside business, how does a department provide oversight? C.K. Gunsalus helps with the issues and the politics.

The movement's rise shows the widespread ignorance of history in the United States, and the need for historians to assure their discipline can reach more students, write Erik Christiansen and Jeremy Sullivan.

I suspect that variations on this will become more common in the next several years. A new correspondent writes: I...

A colleague in the Biology department recently told me about a book that applies game theory to altruism in the...

Today it really is Earth Day 40, even though we at Greenback celebrated last weekend. The celebration was somewhat muted...