Mathematics as a Liberator

…equipping students to understand mathematics better so they can succeed, the new framework will leave students less prepared and teaches them a new dangerous lesson: mathematics is a tool of…


A Book President Obama Should Read

If you listen to the glowing rhetoric about higher education, you hear about how it does so much to enhance students’ skills, how it will raise their earnings, how it…






Why Literary Scholarship Matters

…mainly succeeded only in distorting the literary works that they purport to study. While they only discuss academic study of Renaissance literature, they provide us with a basis for judging…


The Wrong Incentives

…Productivity (a.k.a. the Delaware Study). If faculty members teach more student credit hours than the Delaware Study predicts—then the university has more money for other purposes. There are, however, serious…


Why the Left Relies on Statistical Illiteracy

…sexism.Co-authors Chad Topaz (“Data scientist/mathematician and activist” and co-founder of the Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity) and Nate Brown (“Math faculty like me can be…


Internationalization Is Really Politicization

…mathematics is shaped by the culture, the mathematics culture should be internationalized.” They suggest that is necessary for mathematics students “to study abroad to gain the cultural knowledge they will