I think it’s safe to say that most American children learn about the Holocaust sometime in late elementary or early middle school (around grades 5-7). And I think it’s also safe to say that for most of them, their first introduction to the Holocaust is via the Diary of Anne Frank. My own experience was…
What’s a Professor to Do?
If you’re like me, you probably took four or five classes in graduate school that prepared you for the world of digital rights management, online copyright, fair use, and other legal niceties of the digital age. Of course, that version of me who took all of those courses lives in a parallel universe only loosely…
No. That’s Not Your Name!
As someone whose research and teaching center on modern Eastern Europe, the most recent news from across the Atlantic is just more fodder for a great lecture. For the umpteenth time, the Greek government has vetoed Macedonia’s entry into a European structure–in this case NATO–because those pesky Macedonians persist in calling their country Macedonia. Can…
The End of Western Civilization as We Know It (cont’d)
This is now the sixth post in my extended reflection on how the free economy poses important challenges for American higher education. Thus far I’ve written a lot about the academic aspects of what free means for those of us in post-secondary education, so today I want to turn to the economic aspects of the…