Filter & Sort
Pandemic Lessons Unlearned
Why we need greater transparency, clarity, humility and accountability in public health messaging.
Where Tomorrow Meets Today
Science fiction’s role in crafting fantasies while confronting current realities.
How and When Might the Great AI Job Replacement Take Place?
While there are isolated examples of wholesale layoffs among a few individual companies, the broad scale loss of jobs has not yet materialized.
‘The English Experience’ Rounds Out the ‘Dear Committee’ Trilogy
Wondering how this novel, which is in part about teaching students to write, might have been different if written after the release of ChatGPT.
The True Crisis of the Humanities
No longer are engagement with serious texts, weighty intellectual and ethical issues, and the arts central to a college education.
Higher Education’s Trust Deficit
Colleges’ and universities’ new mandate: to rebuild public trust.
Teaching Writing in a Generative AI World: a Compendium
Collecting up my recent writings on a complex topic.
‘The Displacements’ and the Need for a Climate Change Academic Novel
A call to combine climate and campus fiction.