There’s been a long gap in posts here at Dr. Medusa. What can we say? Being a professor sometimes takes over one’s life. Spring 2008 was quite the Semester from Hell. Even once it was over we were still overwhelmed. We have been missing the posting habit. Here’s to getting back into it.
We read with interest William Deresiewicz’s article on The Disadvantages of an Elite Education on the American Scholar website. Deresiewicz exposes the shocking truth that there are in fact negative aspects of the culture of elite American universities, and “the last thing an elite education will teach you is its own inadequacy.” He writes perceptively [...]
Recently we came across an article by Sandra Tsing Loh in the Atlantic on the age-long debate about whether it’s good/bad for mothers to stay at home/work. While people love to argue about that particular topic, we’ll pass that up for the moment to focus on an initially shocking (to us) number mentioned in the [...]