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Did blogging kill the public intellectual?

By alex | Published: 1/8/2008
Russell Jacoby has a column in the Chronicle of Higher Ed arguing, paradoxically, that blogging has drowned out the voice of the public intellectual. He argues that, in the US, blogs are not so much about challenging an authoritarian state as about adding to the cacophony. Blogs may be more like private journals with megaphones […]
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Happy Solstice!

By alex | Published: 12/22/2007
The above was my automatic holidayomancy from the Worktank Holiday-O-Matic card generator. I was too slow to put together Christmas cards this year. I took some pictures in Central Park and Midtown on my way back from the dentist earlier this week, and I think I might be able to make a nice card out […]
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Does Mitt Romney Hate Noodles?

By alex | Published: 12/19/2007
I was watching my Sunday comedy program, which included an interview with Mitt Romney, who discussed his recent speech on “Freedom and Religion.” Romney said that America needed “morality and religion” though that religion was “of course, not a particular denomination.” Tim Russert questioned him on this, asking about whether atheists had a place in […]
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Tips for academic job applications

By alex | Published: 11/28/2007
Obviously, I cannot talk about our current hiring process, but I can say that academic hiring is always a difficult process–all the more difficult because it tends to be fraught with administrative restrictions in a way most hiring in the private sector is not. This is the fifth academic search committee I’ve been on, I […]
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