Irrelevant Knowledge

In the past few weeks, I have searched, mostly in vain, for something, anything, from the higher ed classics of my graduate school days that might provide, if not wayfinding, then transferable wisdom for coping with the End Times. (Disclosure: The Chronicle’s recent piece on how “loose coupling,” among other factors, may have contributed to …

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Hungarian Rhapsody

Recently, I began reconsidering a set of old pressboard binders that took up shelf space in the condominium where my wife and I lived for half a decade and brought home our newborn, more than a few square feet in the storage unit I took out when we moved abroad, and my line of sight …

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