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via : WASHINGTON – Hoping to reach an estimated 1 million adjunct professors nationwide, Service Employees International Union on Monday ...

The best I found of this wonderful meme, followed by my own more modest contribution.

Why does academia draw such fire? Last week it was  arming students . This week it has skipped straight to shooting faculty .  While fill...

My contribution to True Detective Fan culture.

I've been surrounded by discussions of rigor lately. In academia, rigor seems always to go hand in hand with quality. Degree programs, d...

A few years back, I wrote here about  guns on campus . This terrible policy keeps coming back to haunt us. Here's a link to a more eloqu...

Here's something  new . Some mad genius is currently at work tweeting  Top Gun, in its entirety, frame by frame, in all of its homoerot...

My most recent stint serving on a search committee has coincided with teaching a class on Freud. The intersections have been instructive. ...