Graduates from even elite Ph.D. programs in the humanities have virtually no chance of a tenure-track job. What’s to be done? ... more »
Mozart and Beethoven were freelance musicians. Two centuries later, they would have disappeared into a university and never heard from again ... more »
Anyone who cares about the origins of ideas must take an interest in mathematics. Yet on this front, the willful ignorance of intellectuals passes for cultivation ... more »