Category Archives: Higher education

Everyone Gets Government Money Eventually, so What’s So Special about College Debt Forgiveness?

My initial reaction to Biden’s announcement of student loan forgiveness was to have no reaction: Since then, I’ve heard…

August 2022 I was recently asked by a grad student for pointers on giving a presentation, so here we…

Background: on May 13, 2022, the self-described “post-liberal” conservative Patrick Deneen appeared on Ezra Klein’s podcast. He got some things…

Area studies (ethnic studies, gender studies, and the like) are magnets for criticism. These are the fields harboring the…

(Image credit: NSF) Previously I posted a version of my CV that listed all the peer-reviewed journals that had rejected…

Publishing in peer-reviewed journals is hard. It’s also highly arbitrary. Here’s an abridged version of my CV that shows where…

Is social science infested with postmodernism? This seems to be a constant refrain on Twitter and other venues for social…

Nick’s introduction: If you live in Salt Lake City or are involved with the University of Utah, you might following…

Nick’s introduction On July 20, 2017 the news broke that my employer, the University of Utah, agreed to accept a…