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The MLAs of Yesteryear
For those interviewing at MLA this year, here are links to a couple of dispatches I did for McSweeney's on...
The Committee Is Now in Session
Carolyn Foster Segal considers -- with some fear -- the number of meetings professors must attend.
Thoughts on Boxing Day
I'm not sure when or why December 26 became Boxing Day but it always has been, at least in my...
Godfrey Wishes You A Good Holiday Season
Do you know the great children’s album The Bottle Let Me Down? Get it, even if you don’t have kids...
Stop Using Rhetoric to Teach Writing
It's time to question an increasingly popular way to organize a key part of undergraduate education, writes Joseph Kugelmass.
Humbug
A recent "Grand Avenue" cartoon shows a grandmother and two kids standing in front of a store window. One kid...
Hey, RIAA and MPAA, Time to Shift Gears
Entertainment companies should stop policing illegal downloading by college students, Joseph Storch argues, and head to the new frontier: the mobile device as all-purpose media-access machine.
A Call for a Higher Education Summit
Arthur Levine writes that colleges could easily miss an opportunity offered by the presidential transition, but that the right kind of conclave could make this a constructive moment for tackling key issues.