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Standing under the arch
“The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into...
TRUTHS OF LIFE, AND OF THE CLASSROOM
"You're excited," said my husband to me as I entered the car last night after my second Messiah rehearsal at...
Still Gets to Me
TW has commented, correctly, that part of the reason I'm suited to academic administration is that I'm prone to repressing...
Where Are the Students?
Young people are surprisingly absent from the health care debate, even though the stakes are high for them, write Laura Stark and her students.
Long Distance Mom: Airports and Non-Places
What does ‘home for the holidays’ mean when you aren’t really sure where your home is located? Marc Auge’s book...
Speculating About Desire2Learn
Warning : This blog post is entirely speculative and quite likely wrong in many (if not all) areas. Unfortunately, I...
ABC's and PhD's: Nobel perspective
Two weeks ago I reported on a proposal about to come up for vote in the University of Maryland senate...
A Gladiator of Letters
The Savage Detectives and 2666 make literature feel like a matter of life and death. Scott McLemee interviews a prominent Bolaño-logist.
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