Opinion

Researchers are studying Twitter as communication medium and index of public opinion. Scott McLemee catches up on the scholarship.

Andrew Jackson seems to be thinking: I’m not sure I can hold up under the weight. Warren G. Harding seems...

They don’t teach this stuff in dean school. I hear a rumor that a professor has moved out of his...

Two years ago I would have bet that the Mac/PC divide would have lost its salience by now. I thought...

Speaking for all of us here in the Northeast, I want to apologize. In truth, we probably deserve our fate...

Michael A. Olivas reviews and praises the legal arguments that carried the day in Monday's Supreme Court ruling on public colleges' anti-bias rules.

As regular readers know, I’m a colossal nerd. One of my nerdier habits involves listening to Marketplace podcasts on a...

I'm in the middle of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error , by Kathryn Schulz, so everything I...