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The King of Pompeii
Irving Kristol was the godfather of neoconservatism. Scott McLemee goes to the mattresses.
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Scaling Up Fast
This September has been a lesson in what happens when you try to scale up really quickly, with less money...
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High Risk / High Return
If the MacArthur Genius Program gave awards to institutions I'd be that Abilene Christian University would be a shoo-in. The...
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A loss of faith?
Listening to NPR this morning, I heard a representative of the Bipartisan Policy Center (who? should I trust anyone whose...
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Resist the Pedagagogical Far Right
Robert J. Nash offers principles for putting students -- not prestige or politics -- at the center of higher education.
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Strange Days Indeed
Along with everybody else I’ve been reading the articles and op-ed pieces in the Times on the current “populist rage”...
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Building for Non-Compliance
On my campus, we're discussing a change that's generating some feedback along the lines of "well, if everyone just did...
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'Mad Men' and Learning Tech People
"Mad Men" won the Emmy for best drama Sunday night, the second year in a row that the show has...