Monthly Archive: April 2015
Running the University (and everything else) like a Business
Another dispatch on living in a short-term, transient “society”.
Why Republicans Will Have a Hard Time Gaining Asian Support
It’s not that we can’t like Republicans. It’s that we can’t see Republicans liking us.
Has the United States Given Up on Good Jobs?
What happens in a nation where there is not enough work for everyone?
God’s Not Dead, American Sniper, and Higher Education as a Rorschach Test
When we talk about colleges and universities in the Culture Wars, what we’re really talking about is us.
In Which Everybody Is Wrong
We’re beta, we do meta a lot around here.
So I’m going to get meta about meta to show I’m the beta-est beta here.
College-Ready?
You can’t determine whether somebody is ready for college using the SAT. You can’t determine whether somebody is ready for college using GPA. You can’t determine whether somebody is ready for college using class ranking. You can’t…
How Your Kid Can Make a Good Science Fair Project
Your science fair experience doesn’t have to be terrible.
It’s Getting Drafty In Here: 2000s Edition
There appears to have been something in the water in 1985. Or 1984. Or 1983? Oh, what the hell am I doing here?
A Partial Defense of “Strings Attached”
Attaching strings to anti-poverty legislation is not always a bad thing.
