No Ving Rhames/Pulp Fiction jokes (you were thinking it, you know you were).  Just a couple of interesting tales from … Continued

Five years ago I wrote the following blog, under the headline “fifteen years ago today”.  I think it’s worth running … Continued

There is a lot of talk these days about populists and universities.  There are all kinds of thinkpieces about “universities … Continued

I’ve been reading Benjamin Tromly’s excellent book Making the Soviet Intelligentsia: Universities and Intellectual Life under Stalin and Khrushchev. It’s … Continued