Physicist at Large

I do not have time to comment on this except to say that Freddie brings some important insights in outlining the Official Dogma of Education...

As profiled today in Inside Higher Ed , the Center for Community College Student Engagement (a research center at UT Austin) released a stud...

I've said before that the way academics talk about inclusion feels like a desperate bid for legitimacy.   The Chronicle has a review of...

I like this article  in the Chronicle :  Public intellectuals, people who know a lot, are on the decline, while "thought leaders",...

America doesn't have a problem with political correctness.  America's tribes have a problem with political correctness. You can sa...

I think the nostalgia for the Good Factory Jobs is as much about the anxieties of A Certain Professional Class as it is about the anxieties ...

I have a casual interest in linguistics--I enjoy browsing an Indo-European dictionary  and occasionally tweet about what I learn .  I thus c...