Author: Aaron Barlow

One of the pressures on academia these days has come from those parts of the outside population that believe universities could be run in a more business-like fashion.  That is, many people assume that universities should...

Hmpf.  Someone without the courage to reveal his/her name (writing as “Ivan Tribble”) has written a piece called “Bloggers Need Not Apply” for The Chronicle of Higher Education.  The point of...

When I commented that Niger is actually an interesting place to visit (in response to diaries cutting apart those snarky comments that Joe Wilson wanted to go to Niger for a free vacation), I was asked to tell a little more...

Not surprisingly, most academics want to focus on the work they are doing, some of which (and it is impossible to tell, now, what will prove so) will be extremely important to our future lives.  “Just let us alone;...

Joe Wilson gets smeared for exposing a lie–and then called a “peacenik” and enemy for criticizing an administration he had worked to support.  Whistleblowers are so reviled that laws (rarely enforced) have...