I have one regret, thus far in graduate school. I haven't read enough. I look back at all the "rewards" i gave myself - a few drinks one night, a movie another, surfing the web endlessly in search of just the right cute animal picture, the...
My father is a veteran of the Vietnam War. He did multiple tours - he signed up for them. And he received many medals for his service. He even turned down a Purple Heart that he didn't feel he deserved (he stubbed and broke his...
In the past few months, there has been a seeming up-tick in mocking other disciplines or sub-fields of our disciplines (or even Geography, as a whole), and even suggestions to cut entire programs. One of the more obnoxious and recent being, of course, the piece,...
On April 30, Naomi Schaefer Riley published a piece, The Most Persuasive Case for Eliminating Black Studies? Just Read the Dissertations, in the Brainstorm Blog at the Chronicle of Higher Ed. Her post was a vitriolic, acerbic personal attack on three young black women an...
"Aid is working - Tell the world how" is how the Grand Challenges in Global Health page starts (If you're wondering who is behind Grand Challenges, you don't have to look farther than BMGF). It's an invitation to explain to people that global health and...