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Sherman Dorn
Walking Backwards, a few years later
No, the first words of the title are not the name of a failed indie band (though a mockumentary about it would be fabulous). I am on annual leave for most of this week, escorting my younger child to various colleges in a region of the country colder than Florida. Campus tourguides still walk backwards several years […]
Penn State is not University of Central Florida, and other tuition notes
The comments on my messy neoliberalism post are focusing on Kevin Carey’s testimony at the affordability hearing this week. Since Carey is usually much more careful in distinguishing between well-endowed private colleges and universities, tuition-driven privates, flagship publics, regional publics, and community colleges, the following passage astonished me: There is no doubt that colleges have […]
The lighter blogging pace will continue next week
I am not an every-day-a-post blogger, so the fact that I am headed out this week on a trip visiting colleges with Younger Offspring will not otherwise be noticed, except that I will be taking notes on the Art of Visiting, which some readers may remember from a few years hence with Older Offspring (who […]
Where did the work ethic go for Charles Murray?
Charles Murray “has said all of these things about black people before” — Joan Walsh, review of Coming Apart in Slate. When you’re well past your prime of peddling racist venom to elites who want to feel better about themselves, you have to reinvent things for the new century. Charles Murray has long argued the intellectual […]
An historian’s messy attempt to understand neoliberalism
“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax– Of cabbages–and kings– And why the sea is boiling hot– And whether pigs have wings. ((Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter, in Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)) “… And homo economicus, and sanctions that […]