Academic Politics 
“Race to the Top”: A Bush Doctrine in Obama Clothing
In between the electoral shakeup in Massachusetts, the Supreme Court effectively putting elected offices up for auction, and the aftershocks in Haiti that were probably caused ... ...read more
What’s Wrong With American Education?
There have long been two prevailing views of education in America. The first is exemplified by John Dewey’s dictum, “Education is a social process. Education is growth. Educatio... ...read moreWhy The New York Times is Wrong About Higher Education
The New York Times, usually considered a center-left rag, has been getting awfully Friedmanesque in its education coverage. Take, for instance, this article on the demand for hi... ...read moreStory of the Year: The Professor and the Cop
The “Academic Politics Story of the Year award” goes to Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Harvard University and Sergeant James Crowley of the Cambridge Police De... ...read moreWhy You Should Go Back to Grad School
To weather the current economic storm under the eaves of some neo-gothic academic pile, studying Kirkegaard or parsing Lucretius is a tempting fantasy. I have the opposite probl... ...read moreWelcome to Academic Politics
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