A Summer Report to the Middlebury Faculty

This post is a bit unorthodox in its content and length—it is very long, yet I invite comment, as always. It is a report I sent recently to our faculty to set the context for some of the discussions we intend to have this year about our curriculum, pedagogy, governance, cost, and defining a liberal […]…Continue Reading A Summer Report to the Middlebury Faculty

“I Didn’t Close That”: When The Tweeterverse Speaks, The Media Listens – Too Closely

It is increasingly clear to me that the Twitterverse has made it more difficult for the traditional media to do its job, which is to cover campaigns accurately.  The ability of partisans to tweet in unison and almost instantaneously in … Continu……Continue Reading “I Didn’t Close That”: When The Tweeterverse Speaks, The Media Listens – Too Closely