Month: July 2014

Necessarily, it seems to me, a co-authored work, growing… out of collaborative discussion and intellectual exchange, cannot have an authentic and distinctive voice. Inevitably,…

Any educated person can rattle off a list of the great achievements of science and technology in the past 50 years: the Big Bang,…

The New York Times recently published an article on a study about the relative difference in earnings between majors, particularly how much a recession affects…

It obviously would not have counted as the survival of, say, Plato’s Academy if, at some point in the waning of Athens’s golden cultural…

Following up on an earlier post, according to an official spokesperson at Rutgers, Peter Ludlow will not be joining the Rutgers faculty. “When Rutgers…

On the second day of this blog’s existence, I wrote a post answering some questions I had received from readers, including this: Is this…

Bruce Springsteen was photographed reading a book about philosophers lately, and one result has been a jump in sales for the book, Examined Lives…

The widespread perception is that most faculty members do not engage with the public—either because they don’t want to or because they know they…