Category: academics

Academic Failure and the Loss of Discourse

A post from seven years ago floated up in my FB memories this morning. It was […]

Is Florida Really Forbidding African-American Studies?

For the last several days I’ve been seeing breathless articles describing the “racist” actions of Ron […]

Laughing at Arrogance

I have to laugh when people attempt to remind me that they are superior to me […]

Parents, Kids, & Education

For some reason the question of “do parents have a right to know what their kids […]

Women at Home and Abroad

Who has it better? The on-going indoctrination of young women in the United States has them […]

Big Changes

I resigned my faculty position at the end of May. Today, I finished cleaning out my […]

And so it begins…

The Spring 2020 semester starts tomorrow. I just got back yesterday from 11 days in Belgium […]

Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my!

Lions, tigers, and bears all seem to appear at this time of year. The metaphors, at […]

One down, 14 to go

I’ve been neglecting the blog, but I have a reason. The first week of the semester […]

Reading Breadth

I just read a post at Mad Genius Club discussing reading and cultural heritage. This post […]