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More notes on college visits
I’m continuing my series of notes on college visits (the last one was from the fall). Thanks to frequent-flyer mileage, my daughter’s spring break, and a few other things, we’re spending almost an entire week in a part of the country where my daughter has never visited. I’ve been in one metro area before, but […]
Fish ferociously flubs
Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the ground after reading Stanley Fish’s latest piece, wherein he argues that because some substantive academic arguments are heated, we should see through the University of Colorado faculty committee’s misreading of a typical scholarly debate as research misconduct. One can make a number of plausible arguments […]
Seattle will be drier
I spent some time this weekend finishing the first complete draft of a talk I’m giving in Seattle on Thursday. I’m going to be heading there while a few thousand historians are leaving Seattle after the end of the Organization of American Historians meeting. I’m either expecting to find a time machine or I am […]
Ward Churchill, delusional
A little over three years ago, I noted that Ward Churchill was an awful poster boy for academic freedom, and he continues to astound me with his trial against the University of Colorado. According to both the New York Times and Chronicle of Higher Ed reporting on his testimony today, Churchill claimed both that his […]
Needing a break, even for a hardened historian
During spring break, I starting reading some books on the Spanish Civil War, and I’m finding it tough slogging: it’s not inherently hard reading, but it’s hard to read for long about a story that ends badly, where thousands of people lost their lives and a country turned into a dictatorship that lasted for decades. […]