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ABC's and PhD's: Horsing around
My mom grew up on a ranch, and she made sure when my brother and I were old enough, we...
Interview Meals
Rebecca Aanerud and Jerry Baldasty explain what (not) to eat, and the nonculinary questions that should be your focus.
The King of Pompeii
Irving Kristol was the godfather of neoconservatism. Scott McLemee goes to the mattresses.
Scaling Up Fast
This September has been a lesson in what happens when you try to scale up really quickly, with less money...
High Risk / High Return
If the MacArthur Genius Program gave awards to institutions I'd be that Abilene Christian University would be a shoo-in. The...
A loss of faith?
Listening to NPR this morning, I heard a representative of the Bipartisan Policy Center (who? should I trust anyone whose...
Resist the Pedagagogical Far Right
Robert J. Nash offers principles for putting students -- not prestige or politics -- at the center of higher education.
Strange Days Indeed
Along with everybody else I’ve been reading the articles and op-ed pieces in the Times on the current “populist rage”...