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I enjoyed Kathleen Fitzpatrick's recent piece in the Chronicle * on risk-taking and the responsibility of mentors to back up those juni...

A few weeks ago one of my friends was interviewed in a coffee shop about the crumbling economy. She was in that coffee shop working on her d...

AP: " Nobel literature head: US too insular to compete " Bad news for American writers hoping for a Nobel Prize next week: the top...

I recently read Michèle Le Doeuff's The Sex of Knowing (in translation). At its heart is a critique of difference feminism based on a h...

Recently I checked my sitemeter to see what miserable search strings had directed people to my blog. As I've ranted before, it's us...

Sociological Images comes through again with a post on Akademics clothing. Gwen writes: Contrary to what you might think, it’s not part of...

Everybody knows that Ron Silliman has the best linkspam around. Recently he's linked to an Inside Higher Ed article by William Major ...

Here's another instance of the commodification of the idea of science, here embodied in the "genius" figure of Albert Einstein...

I don't know whether it is still the case that fifth-graders in Newport News routinely visit the Mariners' Museum . I admit that whe...

Chancellor Birgeneau writes in USA Today , " Bravo for Yale and Harvard, but what about the rest? " The short version: rich school...

It's the second day of MLA, and I'm sort of horrified that there's just as much more to come. I've heard many good talks and...

Harry Mount's NYT op-ed " A Vote for Latin " opines that learning Latin makes better statespersons. He deplores politicians...

Piled Higher and Deeper appears to be the grad-student-centric web comic of choice. Unfortunately, PHD is all about engineers. The recent a...

Gilbert and Gubar open The Madwoman in the Attic provocatively with the question, "Is the pen a metaphorical penis?" Their aim is...