"Once again, there are signs of deep trouble for the humanities in higher education — in the Western world, if not the world as a whole. News of closures trickles in relentlessly. At New Zealand’s Victoria University, ancient Greek, Latin, and Italian were all given...
The world has completely changed in 12 years for me (as "pictured"), although you can point out unimportant perennial themes, such as the wall items are the same in the office. It goes to how the 'stupid' read images in an image-obsessed culture. There are are too...
A significant slice on the global history of sociology, philosophy, and historiography has been around discussions of Micro and Macro scopings, and Thin and Thick concepts, with the best scholars examining what Randall Collins calls, "interaction ritual" (IR). The...
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NDB. The Level Playing Field Saturday, 3 August 2024 ONLINE APPLICATION TO WHOM IT CONCERNS Dear Friend, Attached is the draft essay, “The Concept of the Level Playing Field.” I am the sole author and disclaim all...
Hey You, Are You Listening, Are You Thinking? Mark Moyar, A Conservative Professor on Academe's Political Conformity: Decades of ideological homogeneity have hurt everyone, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 30, 2024: In...
“Academic careers often take people away from the support networks that help to raise a child, care for an aging parent, or weather a medical emergency.” For seven years (very late 2009 or very early 2010 to very late 2016) I cared for my terminal-ill...
Jessica Gavora, in The Atlantic (July 25, 2024, 7:31 AM ET) wrote: I thought of Dad last week, when the Republican vice-presidential nominee, J. D. Vance, said something that profoundly misjudged and disrespected his memory. “America is not...
"Higher education has a culture of unhappiness: Professors in low-demand fields — feeling like we have no options — often practice resignation rather than pursue opportunities that might suit us better. Academe systematically convinces extraordinarily talented people...