Making the rounds on Twitter today was a letter from the University of Chicago (more specifically, the Dean of Students) to the incoming students of…
Earlier today, a robust debate emerged around an article in the “Academics Anonymous” section of The Guardian‘s “Higher Education Network” and its sweeping denunciation of social…
Every summer, I take time to reflect on the academic year that was. The classes I taught, the workshops I either facilitated or attended, what…
In the pre-Civil War United States, there was a burgeoning literature and rhetoric that sang the praises of chattel slavery with increasing gusto in response to…
I am an academic-in the Humanities, no less-so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I sometimes act irrationally. Hell, seeking an academic career in…
Oh, hey! It’s an arbitrary placeholder on an imperfectly-constructed measurement of the earth’s rotation around the sun! Time to make some important life choices!