Georgetown’s MSB teaches principles of good management but is not particularly interested in following them. A good illustration is in how we allocate merit raises. (N.B., I get very high…

Law professor Simone Sepe reviews When All Else Fails at NDPR. The review is thorough, but unfortunately for Sepe and fortunately for me, the main “critique” of the book misses…

Daily Nous posted this badly written letter yesterday: http://dailynous.com/2019/08/06/recognizing-gender-critical-feminism-anti-trans-activism-guest-post/ It claims that Gender Critical Feminists aren’t engaging in scholarship when they…get this…publish papers or conduct interviews where they argue for…

The Niskanen Center has spun its weekly wheel of ideology, and this week landed on small-r, Pettit-style republicanism. There’s a great deal wrong with this theory. Here I’ll focus on…

Full-time US faculty at four-year colleges, in two disciplines, vs. majors in those disciplines over time.

In Cracks in the Ivory Tower, we note that empirical work overwhelmingly shows that students evaluations are reliable but invalid measures of teaching effectiveness. Some early results were positive, but…