I talked about the “demographic revolution” and what it means for universities a couple days ago, and now I owe you the second half of the thought. Here is that second half. Sorry it took me a...

I'll get back to the demographic changes of our age and their implications for higher ed, tomorrow.  Tonight I'm gonna shovel some links your way. They pile up quick around here.

A nice...

There's a stimulating piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education this morning, on the risis of enrollment in American higher education.  It gathers five people together.  To be honest, I don't know...

So it's a couple more this time, so sue me.  You don't have to read them all.

A pedagogical point, about the need to read more in order to write better.  This is actually I think a...

Sometimes facts can seem "partisan."  This is one of those times.

In my adult life, the constellation of institutions forming American public higher education, once the greatest in the world...

My title alludes to two books that are very important to me: Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition, in which she discusses "the rise of the social" as a phenomenon of modern (particularly twentieth...

A quick review of a book that explains how eceonomics became 

"[T]he dominant explanatory framework of our time, commonly rolled out to account for matters from criminal sentencing to the...

I'm trying to keep my blog somewhat "apart" from current events. I'm trying to talk about deeper structures, more permanent features, long-term realities. God knows we have enough attention to...

A good small Sunday sermon for you can be found in this nice piece.

Complexity, maturity, reality. In an ideal situation, they do emerge, at least loosely associated with one another. And this...

Time to make the donuts.

A piece about mathematicians' chalkboards, as media for how they work out their ideas.  A nice set of pictures, too.

I was never a serious watcher of Sta...