Stop Problematizing Academic Jargon | Slate | January 2017 It’s easy to mock specialized vocabulary. In these anti-intellectual times, we need it more than ever.
Overhead Shots Show Massive Women’s March Crowds in Cities Across America | Slate | January 2017 Women’s March crowds at cities across the country on Saturday have grown so large that the only way to capture them is with overhead shots. Below, overhead photos and videos from Washington; Los Angeles; Chicago; New York; Memphis, Tennessee; Nashville, Tennessee; Boston; Raleigh, North

Overhead Shots Show Massive Women’s March Crowds in Cities Across America | Slate | January 2017 Women’s March crowds at cities across the country on Saturday have grown so large that the only way to capture them is with overhead shots. Below, overhead photos and videos from Washington; Los Angeles; Chicago; New York; Memphis, Tennessee; Nashville, Tennessee; Boston; Raleigh, North
Syllabus Tyrannus | Slate | August 2014 Syllabus bloat is more than an annoyance. It’s a textual artifact of the decline and fall of American higher education. Once the symbolic one-page tickets for epistemic trips filled with wonder and possibility, course syllabi are now but exhaustive legal contracts … The syllabus now merely exists to ensure a “customer experience” wherein