This essay consists of remarks delivered at Florida Gulf Coast University, on September 10, 2026. university was once an institution whose purpose was the education and acculturation of elites, which is why classics dominated the curriculum. This conception of the...
This essay consists of remarks delivered at Florida Gulf Coast University, on September 10, 2026. university was once an institution whose purpose was the education and acculturation of elites, which is why classics dominated the curriculum. This conception of the...
That commercial AI bots like ChatGPT are the scourge of higher education is a well-rehearsed subject. If cheating was rampant before this technology came on the scene -- in the years prior to my retirement in 2023, I already was confronted with significant numbers of...
A rather bizarre dialogue over at Blogging Heads in 2018 induced me to pull together a number of thoughts regarding the liberal consensus. They remain apt today, so I thought I’d republish the piece at Cathoderayzone. Aryeh Cohen-Wade and Edmund Waldstein, a...
A Pattern We try to define ‘art’ in a way that can accommodate all of the various art forms that exist in our day, only to discover not long after that art history has moved in yet another direction rendering the definition obsolete. The emergence of “pure” or...