Pass Go, Collect $200: the Paradox of the Radical or, Where the Grills Are
One of my most popular (ever) posts was on academic debt, unless you count all that negative attention I got from the Southern Cult of Balls (and Sticks): the debt piece got linked everywhere, and it...
View ArticleConversations With My Spam File
When you have several different email accounts, you get different kinds of invasive email — otherwise known on the Mac as Junk, and on most commercial email servers as Spam. I have also noticed, since...
View ArticleCollege on $50 a Day: It’s a Great Way to Fly
In “The Skies Are Alive With Fees”, the New York Times’ Joe Sharkey writes about Irish airline Ryanair’s cutthroat pricing system. Boasting fares as low as $30 round trip on some European routes,...
View ArticleA Queer Day in History: The Radical Celebrates Her Birthday By Revealing A...
It is no coincidence that we wake up this morning and find that gay men and lesbians in the state of California have, once again, been permitted to marry legally, this time via a split decision of the...
View ArticleDepartment of Thin Skins
You would never know from this report in the Chronicle of Higher Education that the final decision on who the next president will be will not be up to our New Jersey political history colleague Sean...
View ArticleWhatever We Can Do To Help Department
Yesterday all of us in the Zenith Community received a message from (Not So) New President saying that the economic situation is grave in our part of the world, and will be for a while. Personally, I...
View ArticleTrick Or Treat At Tenured Radical: What Will You Be Wearing?
Will you get candy — or a rock? Illustration hat tip. We at Tenured Radical, normally so generous to the constituencies for whom this holiday is the apex of the year (little children, gay folk,...
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