Physicist at Large

The next book will be Academic Freedom in the Age of the University by Walter Metzger.  It's the companion to Richard Hofstadter's ...

A recent poll shows that the public strongly opposes affirmative action in college admissions. Of course, most people who work in colleges ...

I'm going to blog two social science articles from a high-profile journal.  I should state up-front that such articles often contain res...

I am part-way through chapter 6 and I don't have a lot to say.  These are chapters on how the mood of the elites turned against an even ...

A new study from the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University (a college that Hofstadter spent some time ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson knows even less about philosophy, economics, and policy than I do.

On page 141 of The Age of Reform , Hofstadter quotes Progressive journalist Henry Demarest Lloyd as saying: Our great moneymakers have spr...