This spring I read Joel Isaac's Working Knowledge: Making the human sciences from Parsons to Kuhn (Harvard 2012), and I have to say I found myself enjoying it quite a bit.  Not so much for the forest...

Just some Memorial Day Weekend links for you.  

Come to think of it, when was the last time I had an actual honest-to-goodness Memorial Day Weekend?  I hope this one is that.  May it be so for you...

This is a good skeptical assessment of what we can learn from Arizona State University—according to some, a model of the “fifth wave” of higher education—and what we cannot. Suffice to say that Brint...

Just taking this one day at a time.  

Hey--I read Jaron Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now this weekend, and I found it very thought-provoking.  It's a brief...

Like Orwell's designation of his family as residing in the "Lower Upper Middle Class," I think May 23rd is not really late May--that would be like after May 25, I would say--but it's not simply the...

May always feels like it should be the entry into summer.  But it's the "entry" into summer in the same way that the sliding doors at the Wal-Mart open up at 2 AM on Black Friday and the hordes all...

A strange (gloriously wonderful and poetic in an oblique way) thing happened today and I may write about it later.  But for now, more prosaic matters: THE LINKS.

What genetic research can tell us...

This is not an answer to the question posed, but a set of issues worth considering in attempting to answer it.

This piece on "moral grandstanding" has me thinking.  As they understand it, "moral...

I'm gonna try re-entering this blog thing gradually for a bit.  There was an incredibly ugly fracas on Twitter that I was witness to (not thank God a participant in) over Mother's Day weekend, and it...

We're almost there.  It's been quite an academic year.  Hopefully this summer will be good.  For now, there's a few links:

Interview with Charles Mills, author of The Racial Contract and Black...