On Tuesday afternoon, I got the most welcome news I’ve gotten in a long time. In a 3-1 vote, […]

WikiHow claims to be a community of “knowledge philanthropists.” It’s a for-profit enterprise founded by Jack Herrick in […]

Eighty years ago, Clifford Odets wrote a play about striking taxi drivers in New York City. With too […]

Doing research in Greece these past five months since the January elections, and especially during the week since […]

Why do we play the shell game of the so-called “knowledge economy”? The reasons are many, and few […]

Several times a year, the intrepid reporters of Tropics of Meta follow the academic conference beat, checking out […]

If Progressive Era birth control reformer Mary Ware Dennett hadn’t been cremated in 1947 immediately following her death, […]

Being a liberal/lefty/whatever in America has never been easy, and it has seldom involved optimism.  Ever since Werner […]