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Shadow Boxing
Transparency has its limits. My campus recently got into a nasty little kerfuffle over something that shouldn’t have been an...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: Who Speaks for Anon?
Rosemarie Emanuel’s piece last week on bifurcating really got me thinking. My first thought was that I was glad that...
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4 Reasons We Should Care About Netflix's Dumb Moves
The News: Netflix is breaking into two divisions, Netflix for stream and Qwikster for DVDs. The Problem: An integrated service...
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HathiTrust Conundrum
Last week I gave an invited talk on copyright at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. Before I left Ithaca...
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Grounding
A friend and fellow academic from Monash University, Sunway Campus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia recently came for a 4-day scoping...
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Thoughts on 'Pinched'
Pinched, by Don Peck, makes me jealous as a writer. (Michael Lewis and Adam Gopnik have that effect, too.) It’s...
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Looking Forward
As I write this blog on Labor Day, I am looking forward to the next day when fall semester classes...
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"1493" and How We Teach History
Before I jump into an argument about how we teach history, I want to make we don't lose the point...