OK, Francis Fukuyama was an idiot. But there is today an End of History and specifically, the end of the historical profession. Daniel Bessner has a good op-ed about this and it's real my friends. When I received my Ph.D. in history in 2013, I...
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The fall is a fascinating time for this academic from a working class background. When I was growing up and graduating from a high school that had something like a.
Apropos the two post from yesterday on COVID-19 and education, three Georgetown professors – Shweta Bansal, Colin Carlson and John Kraemer – have a piece in the Washington Post arguing.
The University of Copenhagen Library (the founders of Securitization Theory are sometimes referred to as "The Copenhagen School") by kimyeti / CC BY-SA 4.0, from wikimedia commons This will be of interest to very few of our readers, but one of the things that I've...
Buried way too deep in this article about which horrifyingly awful Stanford professor would put together a conference where of the approximately 30 people presenting, all 30 were white men,.
As I've mentioned before, I currently edit an academic international-relations journal, International Studies Quarterly. Its contents are intended for a specialized, scholarly audience, but some of what we publish is.
If Carter Page's career weren't devoted to self-enrichment via deals with oligarchs and kleptocrats, I might feel some sympathy for him. After all, it seems like his every appearance in the media comes in the context of evidence for his lack of mental acuity. And, lo...
No, I'm absolutely not, as a friend recently called it, pulling a "Gorka" on Page. The abysmal quality of Gorka's dissertation was directly relevant to his claims of expertise and.
Let's talk about graduate school. I've spent this year as the Interim Director of Graduate Studies in my department as the usual director is on sabbatical. Speaking of which, I.
I In my prior post, I tried to make clear that you don't need to get very far—less than twenty pages, in fact—into Gorka's dissertation to recognize its academic shoddiness. Something like 7% of it is a cut-and-paste job from an earlier article. In of itself, that's...
We should exercise caution when.
I wrote a piece for The Nation about what it's like to be on the Professor Watchlist: We have been down this road before. During the widespread crackdown on.