Once again, the Chronicle of Higher Education is hosting some top-notch chicken littling about the coming  of our robot overlords. This time...

160 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln had his last full day. It was a full one-- Lee had surrendered just four days before and the war was wr...

It's National Library Week, a perfect time for the American Library Association to publish its annual report , a look back at what was ...

Some days I love my commonwealth's current administration. Here's the sequence. First, the US Department of Ed had a civil rights of...

 Wendell Berry was born in 1934 and grew to be a writer across a wide number of forms, as well as working as an activist and farmer, mostly...

Derek Black's new book Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy  is absolutely worth the read. I 've talked ab...

Greetings from the NPE conference in Columbus, Ohio. It's also  the first time in quite a while that the CMO and I have been out without...