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Extremely weird and disturbing story out of East Lansing this morning. The background here is that after the 2021 season MSU signed Tucker -- who has had one good season as a head coach -- to a really insane contract: $95 million over ten years,...
Author: Paul Campos
Yesterday's post pointing out that average salaries for faculty in American higher ed have been almost completely flat for the past 50 years didn't mention a few complicating details. (1).
Here are some numbers that illustrate, among other things, how and why the relationship between management (upper administration) and labor (in this case, the faculty) in American higher education is.
This new poll is full of information suggesting that the vast majority of Americans are either unaware that the Republican party is now a fully authoritarian anti-democratic cult of personality, or approve of that development. Some highlights: There is no clear leader in a potential...
It's well known that college graduates make on average. quite a bit more money than high school graduates. (I've pointed out that in recent decades the growth in this wage.
This is a very thought-provoking essay from a couple of cosmologists about what may be a gathering intellectual crisis in cosmology, in terms of the so-called standard model of the.
Here's an interesting article that notes and tries to explain some striking differences in life expectancy among otherwise very similar groups of Americans: On paper, Lexington County, S.C., and Placer County, Calif., have a lot in common. They’re both big, wealthy, suburban counties with white...
Jimmy Buffett has died at the age of 76. I don't really know Buffett's music at all, as I think I can identify maybe a half dozen of his songs.
Front page of the University of North Carolina student newspaper Wednesday: The sound of gunfire off in the distance . . . I'm getting used to it now. When I.
This video of students jumping out of a window at the University of North Carolina illustrates how mass shootings or the possibility of them both create a kind of terror state, in which young people in particular are socialized to be afraid of being murdered...
Looks like it's going to be a busy spring for the Republican nominee for president (of the United States): The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s prosecution on.
The key here is that these lies aren't even minimally plausible: they are outrageously absurd statements, that can perhaps be explained, if they have any functional explanation at all, as.