Look on my Outcomes, ye Mighty and despair
The knockoff educational product economy (Part 1)
Culture
Anecdotal Value.
Observations informed by having paid attention for a long time.
Recent essays
30 of 48Two new ways to see your university
The first AI instruments arrive
Stereotype Threat
Inference and prejudice
Why Can't a Model Be More Like a Man?
Everybody's Alfred P. Doolittle now
Let Us Now Praise Famous Shape Rotators
Aristotle was wrong
How to Listen to a Tarantino Movie
Starting with "Django Unchained"
Amor Fati Entropy
Attention is all you lack
AI and the DMZ
What I learned at SAIPCON 2026
For Whom the Bell Curves
AI may explode how students are evaluated
*The One and the Ninety-Nine* [review]
Luke Burgis's moving new book
From the Athens of Veracruz to ChatGPT
Norma Sancho on the emptiness of online education
Trad-husband jobs on Mars
Thoughts on Banff and Brigadoon
Discuss Among Yourselves
Federally subsidized "comments" degrees
How to make a mint off the coming higher ed contraction
Exploit the trust failure now
College credit for this?
What that Oklahoma Bible-citing essay controversy was really about
What does the "higher" in higher ed mean?
AI is forcing the question
How to limit unauthorized AI use in the classroom
A handy rule
Red, White, and Psychedelic
The therapy the American family needs right now
What AI changes about 'Viewpoint Diversity'
Reviewing a book in which I appear
Why sameness, not teaching, is the goal
The Transfer Industrial Complex
My AI thinks Civics is Black Studies
Is there really a civics-sized hole in university curricula?
The most dangerous student on campus
Let's hear from the repeat customers
Marginal Literary Revolution
Average Poetry, Marginal Great Books
Automatic for the people
Rand, Pound, and second-hand prose
Milgram's subjects were never aligned
Machine learning shocks
What should a university AI czar do?
Advice for a flourishing future
For the love of God, learn to paragraph
LLMs' wrongs redressed
Why Film Professors Can't Fail Students Who Won't Watch Films
The ABCs of the higher ed economy
What escapes containment is less valuable
More on the value of local news in the AI era
The First Rough Draft of History
Local news in the AI era