Tag: academic

  • Academic Debate? Let’s hope not.

    A student said to me, “I really wish you could write me a recommendation letter, but you haven’t ever been my professor.” This student has been studying debate with me for several years, so I pushed on this to get the response: “It’s not academic, so it doesn’t count.” Debate not academic? How could this be? We’d…

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  • What, not a travel blog?

    Getting back to my roots here – just read a good, if older, post about academic blogging. Some of the concerns in that article mirror the great concerns raised by Gordon Mitchell in his fantastic recent post on the 3NR blog. Why do I blog? It’s clearly for me to think through questions, but often…

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