A nice interview with Lorraine Daston on her career as a scholar who historicizes the self-evident.  

This is a bit worrying: "The World Bank has just warned us that a fourth...

Small piece on a large topic: Are algorithms fracturing our once-unified culture, leaving us in an archipelago of incommensurabilities, or are they ruthlessly feeding our already-diverse...

I have been reading the selected letters of Lionel Trilling, entitled Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling. I like to read collections of letters, because they seem to me and...

Where I am, it's grey.  That's my outer weather.  Not so much my inner weather.  That's predictably more complicated.  But these links are here for you, whatever the weather, inside and out:

Two pieces in the Chronicle of Higher Education ask a question which I've been wondering about as well--how much is the disinvestment in public higher education part of a larger disinvestment on the...

This piece is a bit light, and seems ot think that it's discovered something that is news to most academics (the "is becoming" in the first sentence below is a few decdes belated), but I think that...

This piece is a bit glib, and a bit too free and easy, but it makes a useful point.  So consider this slight blog post a hat tip to the somewhat weak gesture it makes. That's why my thoughts here...

Still finding all these links in the attic.

We need to be utopian, and these scholars at Stanford are definitely that.  "Thirty years were added to average life expectancy in the 20th...

Sorry for my silence, I've been preoccupied. Next week I should be back with some original thoughts, but for now, here's some thoughts from other people, which let's admit, are probably better...

Surprise, surprise: four out of five dentists agree that the Citizens United decision has likely led to increased corruption in political spending and thus in American politics. (Just kidding about...