Tropics of Meta has not and likely will not come out with an endorsement in the 2020 US presidential race. But the handsy guy… let’s go with a “no.”

A week of truly epic, virtuosic horse-shit reached its tragic crescendo today, with the murder of at least […]

It has been over thirty years since Joan C. Scott let the historical profession know that gender is a “useful category of analysis.” (How many academic journal articles get their own Wikipedia page? Not many I assume.)

What a week. America saw two great injustices visited on the undeserving among us: Mexican businessman Joaquín “El Chapo” […]

There are two dirty secrets about grad school, at least where money is concerned.

What a difference five weeks of pointless, mind-numbing misery, humiliation, and dysfunction makes, huh?  Our big wet president […]

This post is a very tentative sketch of a new research project, building on the ideas explored in […]

2018 was a big year for Tropics of Meta.  We welcomed new contributors (shout out to Eric Michael […]