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Not Dodging Health Care Law

Higher education's efforts to assure continuation of student insurance plans reflect a need to clear up ambiguity in the law, write Terry Hartle and Steven Bloom.
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Modeling the Life of the Mind

Teaching is at the heart of what I do in the humanities, both in my self-conception as “teacher-scholar” and in...
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Culture of Poverty

(Note to my readers: sorry about last week. Life intervened much more than I expected it to. Now, back to...
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Potemkin Campuses

Do you know the story of the Potemkin Villages? Russian Minister Gregory Potyomkin allegedly ordered the building of fake villages...
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Utility Poles

We don't notice infrastructure until it fails. In my case, I never noticed utility poles until I moved to a...
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Parking Revelation

In coming back to my office from a University Lecture, I cut through a main administrative parking lot. The lot...
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Cyberbullying or Institutional Overreaction?

A reader alerted me to this article in the New Haven Register because of its pertinence to the continuing discussion...
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Pro and con

In advance of election day, I got into a conversation with a bunch of folks around the topic of conservatism...