How to make a mint off the coming higher ed contraction
Exploit the trust failure now
Culture
Anecdotal Value.
Observations informed by having paid attention for a long time.
Recent essays
30 of 43College 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 did it take a NYTimes investigation?
How a statewide political curriculum dampens serious scholarship
The AI campus gender wars ahead
A call to cancel first-year writing
The Great Syllabus Stagnation
What Hayek tells us about the coming higher ed collapse
Pittsburgh, Austin, the Cosmos, and the Local
A report on recent gatherings
Your LLM needs a grandmother
A response to Acemoglu, Kong, and Ozdaglar
Metannoying
Your brain on "not X but Y"
Attention is All You Need to Bankrupt a University
Unbalancing the books
The Rumsfeld Matrix
Higher Ed is at war, after all
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
Civics Centers as Ivory Towers
Federalism in the classroom, silence on the street
LLMs are lagging indicators
Why you should hire recent graduates
Embrace your lack
Pluribus, culture, language models, performance
LLM poetry and the "greatness" question
Experiments by Gwern and Mercor
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Aphantasia as a Missing Design Variable. Or, why I can't use Canvas