Minding the Sciences — In Defense of Merit: Is it too late?
…just a mask. Saving science is going to thrust science into some unaccustomed and uncomfortable places. If you don’t like, say, the governor of Florida signing legislation to zero out…
…just a mask. Saving science is going to thrust science into some unaccustomed and uncomfortable places. If you don’t like, say, the governor of Florida signing legislation to zero out…
…would you take to steel our future civilization against its subterranean enemies? My question departs slightly from Mrs. Watchett’s. I don’t refer to humanoids living so far in the future…
…I have no misunderstanding as to what the readings were saying. I simply don’t agree with their conclusions, or yours. I fully understand all the key concepts in those readings…
…reassessing what they thought they knew the week before. Perhaps groups of people fall apart. Perhaps we don’t instantly recognize each other as equals deserving respect. [More from Eric Clifford…
…“Don’t be a Luddite with ChatGPT”] Now, the questions turn to ourselves as instructors and to the students would we might ask to engage with a chatbot. Are we talking…
…pre-professional faculty. [Related: “Don’t be a Luddite with ChatGPT”] That is because the subjects taught by STEM and pre-professional faculty appear to be most likely to be replaced by AI…
…suggesting that osmosis can replace hard work and thinking, but it does point to another natural learning process: language acquisition. We don’t learn our native language by studying it: we…
…“Leave and never come back!” “We hate FedSoc students, f**k them, they don’t belong here either!” and “We do not respect you and you have no right to speak here!…
…history as we know it. To some degree, this would happen whether Thucydides intended it or not. We don’t share our worldview with Greeks from the fifth century BC, so…
…whom don’t do any teaching. [Related: “How Junk Citations Have Discredited the Academy: Part I”] The athletics department is another source of cost overruns. Very few university athletics programs are…
…About EVs and to Peek Behind the Curtain”] Regarding learning how to manage time efficiently, (Suggestion #3: “College requires time management”) two students wrote, Most students don’t realize how much…
…admissions officers can make decisions that don’t make rejected applicants feel that they never had a chance against the lucky few, who, in former times, got ahead through test-prep courses,…
…they don’t change. If I were to distill their arguments into a single, general proposition, however, it’s pretty simple: they all believe that improvements in legal training come from more…
…Protestants. I don’t know if he’d have endorsed the struggle against Spain as did our realist novelist Mark Twain or the insufferably populist poet Walt Whitman. I’m left to assert…
…you must prepare for and learn to benefit from conflict. [Related: “What is a Nation-State?”] I still quote verbatim from a man whom many of us adopted as “our Donald.”…
…these protected categories. If you’re like me—a white, Christian, conservative, heterosexual man (or woman)—you probably think that you don’t belong to a protected class. But you do. Historically speaking, you…
…this is “infantile leftism.” If a “hateful” speaker visits campus, just make lots of noise to shut him down. Don’t even bother rebutting his research. Expressing “good views” outranks doing…
…or humanity if we don’t allow it to be a starting point for dialogue off the platform. And that’s where WSU has failed its students. Don’t perform the piece I…
…But the most important precondition for your acceptance of the article’s argument is: don’t read it. Because if you do, you’ll find within the first page that the whole thing…
…my grading procedures be examined because of my FOIA lawsuit. Don’t see a connection? Of course not, because none exists. Did you expect anything less, though? You don’t dare investigate…
…of graphemes relate to the content of White Guilt. Does the error merit attention? Should police be polite? Does systematic correction amount to white supremacy? Are readers who don’t see…
…don’t even attempt to approximate a traditional university, but they are valuable for those seeking to learn for learning’s sake. It’s a cliche, to be sure, but we should all…
…mirror,” (1Corinthians 13:12). The Message puts it like this: “We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist.” Jesus Christ entered into this world…
…should I school this person you now? Will I look proper and will, how will they see me? I don’t give a shit because I’m bringing all of my authorized…
…National Association of Scholars don’t have an institutional view on aesthetics. Just as we favor freedom of inquiry in the search for truth rather than settled conclusions, so we favor…
…Practices Before classroom education, the younger generation learned through play and imitation. Complex society constrained learning largely to the classroom. Yes, there are peers, social media, entertainment technology, membership in…
…at which we learn our own political science: “it tends to establish magistrates’ influence and to spread legalistic attitudes.” A jury offers experiential learning about how republican government works and…
…chemical and pharmaceutical industry with my students. They have benefited from these conversations. I learned many things at that first job, among them, I learned that despite a tome of…
…three things which I’d like to share with you. First, if you are like me, a white male of a certain age, don’t expect the presenters in any of the…
…don’t expect it took much convincing to found these centers on American campuses—after all, CIs have come under intense scrutiny in recent years, which makes them a public relations scandal…