This summer, I recommended to everyone I encountered that they take an hour and listenRead More
Category: books
Poor. Queer. Studies.
Matt Brim’s Poor Queer Studies is the most exciting book about academia that I haveRead More
Supporting Openness Should Not Mean Supporting Piracy
The Internet Archive has decided to respond to the corona virus crisis by creating whatRead More
When Students Have Power by Ira Shor
Published almost 25 years ago, Ira Shor’s When Students Have Power: Negotiating Authority in aRead More
Thinking About Generous Thinking
Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Generous Thinking helps anyone involved in education think about priorities and assumptions, aboutRead More
The “Textbooks” Misnomer
The other day I explained to a student that the “cc” field in emails isRead More
What Price Academic Books?
Years ago, Amazon included bookmarks with their orders, and one of the bookmarks offered aRead More
Why They Can’t Write by John Warner
1. For a couple years now, I’ve made it a point to read John Warner’sRead More
