On the crisis in the humanities
Jon Baskin and Anastasia Berg, writing in The New York Times.
The Beloit Mindset List, 2018 edition
This year’s list looks to my eyes like a particularly tasteless and clueless array of hastily selected cultural fragments.
The Beloit Mindset List, 2017 edition
Better scotch those Stapleton Airport analogies, Professor Higginbotham! The kids today won’t “dig” them.
The Beloit Mindset List, again
In my lifetime, Bix Beiderbecke, Emily Dickinson, Juan Gris, and Fats Waller have always been dead. And the point is — what?
The Beloit Mindset List, 2011 edition
“ The 2011 edition of the Beloit Mindset List is out, and it manages to outdo the 2010 list in faulty perspective and tackiness.”
Snooki at Rutgers
Rutgers University has paid $32,000 for Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi to speak on campus.
Orange Crate Art: Jared Lee Loughner, student
Articles in the New York Times and Washington Post give glimpses of Jared Lee Loughner’s life as a community-college student
Re: the Beloit Mindset List
Really troubling assumptions about reality and young adults
Narcissism and overconfidence
And college students
Lawsuits of the young and entitled
Andrew Giuliani sues Duke University