-
Aug 18, 2026
It might be the end of the shell game.
-
Aug 10, 2026
Four years after ChatGPT caught so many by surprise, the primary role of higher education seems to be slowing down the public's transition to the AI era. For many faculty, this is a...
-
Jul 30, 2026
The knockoff educational product economy (Part 1)
-
Jul 24, 2026
Universities need to be thinking harder about how weights and inference matter to being "AI ready." No campus conversation I have heard is addressing the "sameness" problem in the...
-
Jun 12, 2026
Across the U.S., twelve million students are earning college degrees partly by 'commenting' on discussion boards, a federally subsidized system few question.
-
May 21, 2026
Social science is broken and I was glad to provoke Michael Inzlicht's viral substack post this week, agreeing that yes, a great deal of social science is broken. The implications of...
-
May 13, 2026
Everyone agrees it is happening. Below is a handy formula to limit unauthorized AI use in the classroom, for use by faculty, administrators, and legislators alike.
-
Apr 24, 2026
The battle is finally forming that I've been waiting for: professors versus metrics. Faculty are finally standing up to institutional demands to check boxes rather than actually...
-
Apr 20, 2026
The most dangerous student on an American college campus is the one whose mother went to college. Universities cannot say this out loud, but they have spent the last decade building...
-
Mar 26, 2026
A call to cancel first-year writing
-
Mar 18, 2026
What Hayek tells us about the coming higher ed collapse
-
Feb 27, 2026
There is no way for anyone to know how good or bad teaching is, beyond anecdotes.
Aug 18, 2026It might be the end of the shell game.
Aug 10, 2026Four years after ChatGPT caught so many by surprise, the primary role of higher education seems to be slowing down the public's transition to the AI era. For many faculty, this is a...
Jul 30, 2026The knockoff educational product economy (Part 1)
Jul 24, 2026Universities need to be thinking harder about how weights and inference matter to being "AI ready." No campus conversation I have heard is addressing the "sameness" problem in the...
Jun 12, 2026Across the U.S., twelve million students are earning college degrees partly by 'commenting' on discussion boards, a federally subsidized system few question.
May 13, 2026Everyone agrees it is happening. Below is a handy formula to limit unauthorized AI use in the classroom, for use by faculty, administrators, and legislators alike.
Mar 26, 2026A call to cancel first-year writing
Mar 18, 2026What Hayek tells us about the coming higher ed collapse
Feb 27, 2026There is no way for anyone to know how good or bad teaching is, beyond anecdotes. 