I’ve been exceptionally dismayed this year by the retrograde, anti-open-access, profit-oriented publication philosophy at the American Anthropological Association. Earlier this year they announc…
If Noam Chomsky had done nothing else, he would have given us one of the strongest critique of the New York Times as …
In so many ways, academic work is hard to recognize as being work in the standard wage-labor sense of that word. It can take …
I’m planning on writing more about French higher education policy in the next few years, since even after my dissertation there’s a …
Earlier this year, I observed that there are two kinds of scholarly overproduction, “herd” overproduction and “star” overproduction. I’d like to come …
If you submit an article to a journal, they always ask you to list your “affiliation.” Typically this means name, academic department, …
I’ve been reading up a bit on the international circulation in ideas of the university. It’s not hard to find documentation of …