Since I began taking summer blogging hiatuses, blog traffic has stabilized at a new norm of roughly 3.1 million unique visits per year (3.2 million last year, as it happens). (Page views are higher, ...

Since I began taking summer blogging hiatuses, blog traffic has stabilized at a new norm of roughly 3.1 million unique visits per year (3.2 million last year, as it happens). (Page views are higher, ...

MOVING TO FRONT FROM JANUARY 7--UPDATED I was sorry to learn that Professor Wolff died last night. He was, of course, well-known to readers of this blog for his many trenchant insights into ...

A colleague elsewhere expressed the view on FB that they should, and that may be right. When universities face financial uncertainty, they do try reduce future costs, of which salaries for faculty are ...

As things stand now, Trump may legitimately win the election next month; he will definitely win if the polls are again under-estimating his support as they did in 2016 and 2020.* If he does, it will ...

A very entertaining lecture from 1991 [click on the PDF button] (which I learned about via Phillip Bricker's recent review of materials from Lewis's Nachlass).). The lecture contains a crisp statement ...

MOVING TO FRONT, ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 4 The full ad (and application links) are here.. Here's the basic description (please note the Workshop theme, it's essential that the candidate be able to ...