Welcome to my blog, where I share personal insights, stories, and analyses on a range of subjects that spark my curiosity and passion. Additional posts can be found on my Substack.
Stretching and breaking: Metaphors of educational change
2026
School Is War, Prison, Factory, Machine, Business, Game, Life….And Other Metaphors
Battle of the Paradigms: What is College for in a Cynical Age?
Oh Harvard. Limiting A’s Is Not It
On Hearing of Hampshire College’s Closing
Is Pedagogy a Moral Project?
The Polycrisis
Democracy, Debates, December
2025
Magic Wand
The rich pleasures—and lessons—of a college campus
A Manifesto for Teaching in 2025
Ungrading Five Years On
The Wayback Machine Did Its Magic
The Media We Make
New Media, Old Media, Teaching
Idealism, Realism, and Cynicism in Higher Education
Standing Up for SCIENCE
The Unnecessary Declaration of English as the Official Language of the United States
Teach-ins for the Twenty-first Century
A microcosm of the world we want, in our classrooms
Our Bodies, Our Selves: On Imagining a Post-Zoom Return
2021
A Year of Pandemic Teaching: The Good List (Part 1)
Student Work Doesn't Have to Be Miserable....For Them or For Us!
2019
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