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A brief addendum, in case anyone was wondering whether mocking a grad student's diss in the NYT could really be problematic. In the las...

Mark Taylor wants to end the university as we know it . I was thinking we were about due for another call for radical change from a tenured ...

Doris Day in Calamity Jane : a woman's touch, indeed. With Miss Moore a word is a word most when it is separated out by science, treated...

I hate it when clarity dawns ... and reveals to you that the last ten pages you wrote are exactly wrong wrong wrongity wrong. Such is life, ...

Apparently UC Berkeley has assembled a task force on textbook affordability . (No evidence yet, so far as I can see, of a task force on not ...

Pitch received from my alumni association: One of these lists is not like the others. The U of C is a leader in Nobel Prizes, Fulbright scho...

Later it struck me that the best history of painting in London was the National Gallery, and that the best history of literature, more parti...

"Ilse and I had a fight yesterday about which we'd rather be Joan of Arc or Frances Willard . We didn't begin it as a fight but...

It's not what it used to be. (TM) Steven Shapin, The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation (Chicago: U of Chicago ...

Do not attempt to operate your phone charger if it has received a sharp blow, been dropped, thrown from a speeding motorcycle or is otherwi...

It must be exasperating to be a composition student. I am not saying this sarcastically; I mean it. At Cal, I'm blessed with smart, high...

Elliott Coues , 1842-1899 Coues was an ornithologist, naturalist, and (according to Wikipedia) army surgeon. I first ran across him in Frede...