University of Venus

I like tigers. The animal, that is, not the human variety that has cropped up lately. Amy Chua’s book “...

“One baby, one book,” my adviser told me, when as an ambitious, twenty-three-year-old, Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University, I announced...

What will the university of the future look like? If we are to believe Bill Gates, it will be open...

For all of my pie-in-the-sky musings about why you should blog, I have become increasingly troubled by a nagging feeling...

My university has one of the worst health records around. In the past five years, four colleagues and two staff...

Since I became an administrator, I have had a yearly performance evaluation. Over all, they have been positive, but I...

Do we need politicians with a serious academic background to increase the general quality of the public debates? Or, is...

I have friends who are well advanced in their (non-academic) careers—they are senior managers, higher-ups in government bureaucracies, established account...