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At the Heaven and Hell Cotillion
Rushmore, cliches, and growing up
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Fart the Ferret's Morning Routine
My fourth daughter, Rachel, was born on the second-last day of 2018. She subsequently did not sleep for more than two hours in a row until halfway…
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What I did on my summer vacation
This is something a little bit different: a report on what I did this summer. So, it’s a new academic year. The chutzpah involved in asserting that a…
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The Single Book Course
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A year
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On guys who wear shorts
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Fart the Ferret's Morning Routine
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Lower Back Pain
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A Contribution to Dad Theory
Happy Father's Day!
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Living+
1000 words about this week's Succession
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Are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Dead?
Comedy and Freedom in Stoppard's play
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Lower Back Pain
A Five-Year Retrospective
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On guys who wear shorts
My eldest daughter is trying out being a teenager. She is twelve, going on thirteen, but is aware of the tropes of teenagerdom. She has always been a…
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AI AI AI
ChatGPT and the small future of higher ed
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The Light in Which It Which It May Be Understood
Learning judgment from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
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A year
Well, grades are in. I’ve written thousands of words of feedback in the last two weeks, and I’ve had moments of real delight in seeing what my students…
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A Letter of Reference
a metapoetical fantasia occasioned by a confluence of events on December 15th
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