Howdy, partner

Miss Self-Important has a humorous response to my post below . It's clever, but the point she's making seems very slippery-slope CCO...

"[A]ctual fields of knowledge"

Between Obama's announcement (sometimes I'm incredibly sappy and un-cynical, and today was one of those times - no doubt there were ...

An Oh, Riley job*

The laziest, and (thus) most popular, conservative critique of higher education involves listing a few course, discipline, paper, or lectur...

Two-buck Chuck

Charles Murray, over truffles, a gin-brand-specified martini, and a $100-plus bottle o' wine, complains , “'[I]n academia their [eli...

On the Charles Murray op-ed

Yes. No. Kind of. Kind of. Slightly longer version: Murray suggests  four ways to bridge the gap "between the professional and working ...