Off With Their (Over)heads: Trump Administration at War with Public Health
This is an Administration at war with public health and medical research.
Tagged: Academia
Settler Colonialism is Just History
The term ‘settler colonialism’ has been widely bandied about, but what does this term actually mean, and does it apply to Israeli-Hamas conflict?
They are Newton’s Laws of Motion
It seems like students should at least be told that others refer to them as Newton’s laws of motion even as they chose to refer to them differently.
In Praise of Youtube Pop-Culture Academics
Youtube is where intellectuals should be making community outreach.
Don’t Blame Me!
Really, nobody is to blame for the unsustainable adjunct situation in academia. And so, nobody can fix it.
Education and Entertainment; University and Community
(Note: this post uses terms and discusses situations that are borderline NSFW.) Strange things are happening at my dear alma mater. There is a controversy of unknown size crewing around a post-class demonstration of...
I’m not sure if I should care about Bob McDonnell’s thesis
Apologies for diving into the morass of Virginia state politics, but the latest controversy surrounding Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell is pretty interesting. To make a long story short, McDonnell casually mentioned his master’s...
Academic obscurantism for the sake of . . . what?
Among other relics from middle school, my CD case still contains well-worn copies of both Pinkerton and The Blue Album, so I read Jeffrey Rosenberg’s Rosenfeld’s undergraduate thesis on Weezer’s odd career arc with...
