Rooted Cosmopolitanism and the Emergence of the Poet in Seamus Heaney’s North
The link goes to a short conference paper I’ve prepared for ACTC’s 23rd annual conference in Dallas, TX. I will be presenting the paper shortly at a...
Category: academia
On Getting a Ph.D. in the Humanities
Jordan Weissmann reports that job opportunities for academics are pathetic and shrinking. He wonders why humanities Ph.D. programs haven’t “collapse...
The Impersonal University
For this discussion: Mike Rice, the administration and Rutgers faculty | Preserving class at Princeton When I first started in political philosophy, I wondered ...
I’m fed up with Megan McArdle’s condescending rants about the academy, even though the picture she paints has a lot of truth
McArdle has another rant about universities and grad school. I don’t feel like saying anything that hasn’t already been said. To sum up previous com...