Louisiana is Right to Scrap a Mandatory FAFSA
…means that colleges will have higher proportions of students who actually think they are cut out for college. The kids who don’t understand that a Pell Grant won’t be enough…
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Living in the Confederacy of Dunces
…least leave his house (albeit reluctantly) and go on escapades, confronting the world face-to-face, the former are tethered to their devices, forever oblivious to everything around them. They don’t have…
Don Juan or Hamlet? Us or Them?
…him. It’s a less bloody affair. There’s a murder, but a king and two fathers excise Don Juan from the Hispanic world like a criminal or a tumor. Don Juan…
Sports Madness Reveals Itself Again Very Soon
…dual role of seriously pursuing a degree and secondarily demonstrating their ballplaying prowess has gone from being tenuous to being almost completely fictitious. Therefore, why don’t we formally separate the…
Who’s Going to Make Sure the Salt Isn’t Poison?
…was that the people who produce, transport, and sell those products are the ones who will ensure their quality and make certain they don’t kill me. Indeed, they’re more likely…
Why Plagiarism Matters
…instructors in freshman English include lessons on the proper ways to quote, paraphrase and cite sources. Why? What is so wrong with plagiarism? We don’t punish actors for reciting their…
AI in the Campus Art Gallery: A Way to Supersede Academic Silos
…are witnessing an AI deluge in and out of academia—no discipline will be untouched. The meaning of a college education requires a new template, and we don’t really know what…
The Motives Fallacy and 1619
…statue because it unwittingly redeems a racist country is absurd—if predictable. However, to argue that race and the institution of slavery don’t heavily influence the founding structures of the nation…
Minding the Sciences — Smarter Than Your Average Bears
…polar bear habitats in the Arctic? We don’t know. Estimates of fecundity derived from fasting duration are themselves statistical inferences, with their own set of errors, as are models for…
The Constitution of Liberty in Borges’s “El Aleph”
…y poderosos lo disuadió (me dijo) de publicar sin miedo el poema.” So, the note twice intimates something that remains unspeakable in public. On the one hand, if we don’t…
After Years in the Wilderness, Conservative Christian Education Is Being Born Again Post-Pandemic
…Sikkink of Notre Dame. The fundamentalist schools also don’t see the need for accreditation – a big priority for leaders in the movement – because it brings outside oversight and…
Ten Commandments for First-Year Chemistry
…time and work required to do well. Please don’t call me names. IV—You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it holy. I teach at a Christian university and encourage my…
Minding the Sciences — At DDP, Innovation Trumps Environmentalism
…shattered knee to an Olympic athlete’s long COVID, was reminiscent of an old-time snake oil sales pitch. I don’t doubt that warmth can help heal us—after all, ice numbs and…
Indoctrination Is Not Education
…everything, judging everything. Best to ignore that commentary. Don’t argue or resist, just ignore. Deprived of attention and interest, this voice gets quieter and quieter and eventually just shuts up.”…
Federalism: Virtue or Structure?
…and again, but consultation, debate, and cooperation are the more normal and logical ways to deal with a shared problem. To be honest, we don’t even need that much nature….
Reforming the Humanities in Florida
…join the Union. Here are three important texts from the Spanish tradition that piqued Jefferson’s interest: Juan de Mariana’s Historia general de España (1592–95), Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quijote de…
A Micro Canon of Joy
…to resist the end of the republic; but life went on. The Metamorphoses are too long to assign easily in a class, and extracts don’t give the full sense of…
Minding the Sciences — Death of a Science Academy
…they complain. “Belonging” is a major topic in Chapter 4. Someone may feel they don’t belong in an organization because of correctible customs—or because they really don’t belong, because of…
Minding the Sciences — Greenwashing a Famine
…South Sudan government has produced a sharp doubling of food prices. Don’t expect foreign investment to improve matters either: the State Department ranks South Sudan as one of the worst…
Minding the Sciences — The Not-So-Silent Spring
…the birds. Not to quibble, but I don’t know of any bird that howls in horror, but never mind: perhaps Milman’s silent spring will not be so silent after all….
How Identity Politics Trumps Preference
…buy you a beer and toss you hollow consolation: “I’m sorry if I hurt your feelings.” These words don’t just deflect responsibility; they accurately reflect the fact that most of…
DEI is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
…to provide a supportive learning environment for its Black students.” Does this mean black students are not doing well? Is the problem the learning environment—or the students? The BLSA continues,…
Minding the Sciences — In Defense of Merit: Is it too Late?
…just a mask. Saving science is going to thrust science into some unaccustomed and uncomfortable places. If you don’t like, say, the governor of Florida signing legislation to zero out…
A Micro Canon: My Three Essential Books
…would you take to steel our future civilization against its subterranean enemies? My question departs slightly from Mrs. Watchett’s. I don’t refer to humanoids living so far in the future…
Brutal Minds and Brainwashing: A Close Look at Leftist Mind Control
…I have no misunderstanding as to what the readings were saying. I simply don’t agree with their conclusions, or yours. I fully understand all the key concepts in those readings…
Why Do People Teach?
…reassessing what they thought they knew the week before. Perhaps groups of people fall apart. Perhaps we don’t instantly recognize each other as equals deserving respect. [More from Eric Clifford…
Teaching with a Chatbot: Persuasion, Lying, and Self-Reflection
…“Don’t be a Luddite with ChatGPT”] Now, the questions turn to ourselves as instructors and to the students would we might ask to engage with a chatbot. Are we talking…
How AI Could Save Liberal Education
…pre-professional faculty. [Related: “Don’t be a Luddite with ChatGPT”] That is because the subjects taught by STEM and pre-professional faculty appear to be most likely to be replaced by AI…
What it Means To Be a Great Teacher
…suggesting that osmosis can replace hard work and thinking, but it does point to another natural learning process: language acquisition. We don’t learn our native language by studying it: we…
Future Lawyers Who Are Afraid to Debate
…“Leave and never come back!” “We hate FedSoc students, f**k them, they don’t belong here either!” and “We do not respect you and you have no right to speak here!…