If you have spent time reading my posts over the years then you know that I often rail against the decline of public intellectualism here in the U.S. During my rants I often point to the 2001 book by Richard Posner entitled Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline. Not long ago a geology colleague of […]

In an earlier post I suggested that the easiest way to understand the divisiveness and contentiousness that now surrounds us is to use the frame of capitalism vs socialism. I just finished reading a book that takes a similar view but frames it differently: Goliath vs Democracy. The book is Goliath’s Curse—The History and Future […]

In support of his article Prometheus on the Quad, Dr. Corvo—professor of social work at Syracuse University—recently sat down with Walter Olson to discuss the trend of increasing administration on college campuses. Walter Olson is Senior Fellow, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute. Here’s the link to this podcast: https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-podcast/he-rise-university-administration Here’s how […]

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Social work professor Ken Corvo’s article Prometheus on the Quad is generating a lot of attention given that we have decidedly moved into an anti-science environment where science is being attacked from both the left and right. Dr. Corvo explores this new reality, where it came from, what’s driving it, what harm it could bring, […]