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CLARITY
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, and UD's gazing at twelve white roses in a twelve-cup teapot. That's her...
Third World Corruption as a Behavioral Science, Part 2
Start here: The more highly corporatized the university, the more corporate in their attitudes the faculty. Especially faculty imports from...
THIRD-WORLD CORRUPTION AS A BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE -- Part One
Universities are winsome, dappled, pathetic things. Their two main constituents, students and professors, are cute and idealistic. They worry about...
WHO KILLED DAVID FOSTER WALLACE?
Suicides, especially the suicides of sensitive writers we love (Virginia Woolf, Randall Jarrell, Sylvia Plath, David Foster Wallace), are a...
THE PENTAGON MEMORIAL
I'm sitting on Leslie Whittington's bench. Born 1955. You can only follow one or two stories, and of course UD...
PALIN FIRE
The fiery debates about Sarah Palin's capacity to lead - the quality of her intellect, the nature of her academic...
Charles Murray on Elites
As we wait for the next water to break on the Palin story, it's worth recalling that one of the...
Professor Meets Gun, Part 10: To Arms
Where to learn to shoot? Where does a fiftyish female English professor with bad aim and a bad attitude go...