Well, in throwing out this question on Twitter, we learned a lot. Not all of it surprising — graduate […]

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

It’s 2019, kids. There’s something in the air.  What is that smell?  Lemon balm?  Hope?  Silica particles from […]

Life often gives us unlikely symmetries.  We see Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Carolina falling into a diligently designed […]

It’s that time of year when people in the world of academia remember what the word “anticlimactic” really means.  All this building tension over the course of the semester, and then when it reaches its seeming crescendo in early December — splat. 

Neoliberalism’s “casino capitalism” has stacked the political deck in favor of powerful private interests. At every step, however, protesters and other activists have opposed neoliberal logic and demanded the rights of people over the right to profits.

Our first week in a post-Anthony Kennedy America was about as bad as one would expect.  But… BUT… […]

Many Americans might assume that copyright is a simple equation: someone creates a work, and then they own […]