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Rex Martin was a first class person with a sharp intellect and wry sense of humor. He was an excellent…
21. Is style the last refuge against AI?
All about class.
*important caveat that said TT job was secured via an internal hire where two other grads of the same school…
Excellent questions! Re question 6, I have actually already invented a new punctuation mark. I can’t type it here, as…
29. Should competitive examination questions obey Betteridge’s Law?
It’s likely that Notre Dame will return to a policy of requiring GREs next year (this year they’re officially optional…
Publishers and/or authors kindly sent me the following books this month:
Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn by Joel Isaac (Harvard University Press, 2012).
The Spirit of Compromise by Amy Gutmann & Dennis Thompson (Princeton University Press, 2012).
The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age by Martha C. Nussbaum (Harvard University Press, 2012).
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