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

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

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

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

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

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

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

English (rather than British) higher education is presently digesting the report by Lord Browne, the ex-boss of BP, called Securing...