When philosophical texts in ancient Greek are unearthed, it is big news. Much excitement greeted the newly discovered fragments of Empedocles, found in a...
Part Two of a Three-part Series on Adjunct Teaching and Student Learning (Part 1)
There are two academias, and our discipline is focused on the wrong...
Few dispute that scientists have physically measured an average increase in global average surface temperature of “0.85°C…between 1880 and 2012”. The best hypothesis to explain...
As a former philosophy professor turned journalist, I have firsthand experience of both academia and the news industry, and the unwritten rules that govern...
As swiftly as fantastic technologies are coming—robots! space colonies! super-humans!—intellectual and social progress seems to be flat-lining. It’s an election year in the US,...
Part One of a Three-part Series on Adjunct Teaching and Student Learning
Take your job. Teach your usual course load and maintain your research program. Add...
Bryan W. Van Norden is a professor in the Philosophy Department and teaches in the Department of Chinese and Japanese at Vassar College. He is a former...
Welcome again to The Teaching Workshop, where your questions related to pedagogy are answered. Each post features questions submitted by readers with answers from...
The superhero film Captain America: Civil War was released in the US last weekend, grossing $181.8 million and ranking it the fifth largest film opening of...
