Tag Archives: Academia

Best of 2016

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Tom Garrett

Happy New Year! Since today is (observed as) New Year’s Day, I thought I would go through the usual motions of curating the best material I generated in 2016 and putting it all in one post. 2016 included a fairly … Continue reading →

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Time to Bury Academia?

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Tom Garrett

The signs of the institutional terminal illness of the American university are increasingly plentiful. The stories out of Missouri and Yale and a half-dozen other places in recent months might be easily dismissed as the grumblings of an entitled generation—and they … Continue reading →