My previous post explained why “refereed” publications—those vetted by expert academic gatekeepers—do not reliably signal scholarly...

I should not be writing this! I absolutely have better things to do by almost any measure. Yet I have been asked to clarify which of my...

This is day 40 or more (depending on how one counts) of a major strike in British universities, which has been nearly ignored by the...

This essay is lightly revised from a talk I gave in 2009 on the occasion of my teacher, David Noble, retiring from the University of...

I hope I was clear in my last post, and in any case it bears repeating, that the logic of “assessment” is not tied narrowly to “student...

Yesterday I read this piece in the New York Times by Molly Worthen. Then I made the mistake of reading the comments thread, which...

Recently I visited a UT class that was discussing Judith Butler. It provoked the perennial complaints about Butler’s prose—leading toward...