Rethinking ROI
This semester I'll be co-chairing our President's "Life-Transformative Education" task force, a signature initiative to rethink undergraduate education at UConn. Part of a coalition of similar efforts
Politics
Briefly Noted for October 24, 2018
Caitlin Flanagan's eloquent description of how histories, true or false, operate in families (e.g. Elizabeth Warren's family):
How many times during my childhood did my father tell me
In their own words: How tech leaders can help you argue for the humanities
I firmly believe the case for the humanities is best made on its own terms. Rather than bending pretzel-like to explain how the humanities contribute to the prevailing values of techo-industrial capitalism, we
What The New Yorker Got Wrong About Lawrence Lessig
In its October 13, 2014 article about Lawrence Lessig's Mayday PAC, The New Yorker writes:
In 2001, Lessig co-founded Creative Commons, an alternative copyright system that allows people to share their
Truth (happily) stranger than fiction
I recently finished rereading, for the first time in many years, one of my childhood favorites, Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. I was immediately struck that the dates Bradbury imagined for