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...
In Defense of the Liberal Arts
“…in many liberal arts fields, the only possible consumer of the research in question is a handful of scholars in the same field. That sort of research is valu...