Understanding the 2024 election as a (slim) rejection of “cultural elites” can help us reflect on the appeal of Donald Trump (or “Donald J. Trump,”…
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Remarkably few doctoral program graduates obtain the tenure-track university posts to which most aspire. I often envied the Ph.D. computer scientists working at tech companies…
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Donald Trump’s town hall marked a ratings high for CNN, but the March 10, 2023, event also came with a price for the cable news…
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Once again, I’m on the academic job market and encountering some curious measures of what it means to support diversity, equity, and inclusion. Namely, hiring…
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As of June 2022, Democratic political action committees (PACs) have spent at least $53 million to promote fringe, Trump-supporting, QAnon conspiracy-spouting candidates in Republican primaries…
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January 6, 2021, was not the culmination of Donald Trump’s narcissistic embrace of conspiracies. Instead, the day was a midpoint in Trumpism and the decline of…
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Today is the last day of 2021. The major academic hiring window closes soon. Schools will conduct interviews early in the new year, followed by…
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Do we work from home or work at home? There’s a distinction: do you work for yourself at home or do you work for a…
Comments closedWhat does it say about our cynicism when criminals deliver what we consider “real” justice in popular fiction? The fictional antiheroes I enjoy raise many…
Comments closedTeaching during the 2020-21 academic year has been an exhausting experience. I had one, yes, only one, student show up for any of the scheduled virtual…
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