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Pierre Bourdieu Was Blowing Down the Street
A Conversation with John Pistelli
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Have We Returned to Colonial Times?
I have been thinking this week of Anne Hutchinson, the Puritan woman who stood trial in 1637 for troubling the commonwealth of New England.
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Why Everyone Should Keep An Authority List
Some of you might have seen this essay recently on Jane Friedman’s site. If you are a new subscriber, welcome! 👋🏻 I hope you’ll join the conversation…
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A Garden Never Dies
To everything there is a season, but for a brief stretch of October it is both a time for reaping and for sowing.
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Academe to industry

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Higher ed

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We Are All Babbitts Or Bartlebys Now
The college landscape in America is beginning to look a lot like the 1920s, but since we’ve stopped reading the literature of that era, at least in…
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Rural Americans Aren't Going To College. Should They?
A lifetime ago, when I still lived in Iowa and had a front-row seat to the Democratic presidential primary, I attended one of Steve Bullock’s events…
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Leaving Academe Is Fine, But What About Your Kids?
Liz Haswell and Joshua Doležal on sending their kids into the system they left
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Memoir

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The Recovering Academic
The Recovering Academic
A series on rebuilding a life and a writing practice after leaving academe.
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