Tag: academic stuff
A recent episode of bloggingheads.tv features John Ikenberry and Patrick Porter. They discuss the Biden administration, liberal international order, and the “Rooseveltian Internationalism”
My wife just received a certified letter alerting me to the odd news that I’ve somehow received tenure and promotion to the rank of associate professor. This is great news for a variety of reaso
Wow. I’ve always been amazed by bizarre and/or offensive and/or illegal interview behavior, having witnessed an abundance of it over the years during faculty searches. But I’ve never reall
Each spring, I have to teach an introductory, interdisciplinary social science course with the banal title, “Reading and Writing in the Social Sciences.” In years past, we’ve spent m
Duh: A new book from Stanford University Press called Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance proposes that . . . we need rigorous and careful thinking about the structure and function and ty
Tomorrow, I’ll be mailing my vote to approve our faculty’s new collective bargaining agreement, which was negotiated over the course of about 14 months in 2007 and early 2008. In the words
- Trump reaches out to Garland to explore what could be done to keep his supporters from murdering a few federal officials here and there
- There is no right to a captive audience
- The night of the short knives
- The curious case of COVID mortality rates among young adults after vaccines became available
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,177
- What whistle is Trump blowing?
- The potential reverse thermostatic effects of Dobbs
- What a dick
- Preparing For The Civil War
- GOP members of Congress lobby oil companies to do more to fight efforts to battle climate change