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Print Encyclopedias, Universities and ‘All the Knowledge in the World’
Britannica, Wikipedia and us.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Uncovering the hidden forces that reshape our lives.
The Fight to Save the Town
A review of the new book by Michelle Wilde Anderson.
Notes From a Community College Humanities Conference
Refreshing. It was refreshing.
Climate Change, the University and ‘The Great Displacement’
A fantastic companion book to Bryan Alexander’s newly published Universities on Fire.
Memorializing a Fraught Past
How to make statues and monuments more meaningful when past figures and events’ legacies are complicated or ambiguous.
Friday Fragments: Parenting Edition
Good news for student parents; good news for purveyors of “dad jokes”; good news from The Boy.
Are Universities ‘How the World Became Rich’?
A higher education–centric theory of economic development.