Beware of the possible snark in the following: One of the possibilities you face when you commit to writing about something is that you get called names. Sometimes you are called wrong. And sometimes when you are called wrong, you are indeed wrong. Such is life. We learn. This is not one of those times. Because I am right. […]

I want to point you to an article in Salon about how academic recruitment is horribly skewed. It confirms what most of you know: academic America suffers from the same stultifying class system as the nation at large. The academic economics profession, of course, is well known for the iron grip a few universities have […]