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Archive for July 24th, 2010

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Look! A Bear! With No Name!

Doug Mataconis and Glenn Greenwald smack a couple of CNN spokesmodels around for badmouthing “anonymous internet bloggers” in the wake of the Shirley Sherrod pogrom. And they’re not wrong! But neither of them notes what I find the really galling misdirection perpetrated here: Andrew Breitbart is a lot of things, but “anonymous” is none of [...]

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Why tenure won’t disappear, just shrink

By Thoreau
The non-academic blogosphere is taking notice of tenure.  Whenever people talk about tenure and the alternatives, the question always comes up “Why not multi-year contracts that provide some stability and moderate security but also accountability?”  Hey, I’d gladly sign off on that.  I don’t really believe in tenure as anything virtuous.  Give me a [...]