Margin Notes

Will teach for tenure

Glaring double standards on workers' rights are far from a class act. When you think of the typical college professor the image of a tweed-afflicted...

The drone wars

High-tech warfare administers death from a great distance. We heard a lot over the early years of the late (once and future?) War on Terror about weapons of...

When enough is enough

Why a future of endless economic growth is not the cure for what ails the earth. After wandering around an academic wilderness for 30 or so years, a fella...

¡Romero vive!

“The harvest comes because of the grain that dies.” One year shy of 30 years ago on March 24, 1980, standing before the altar of a small hospital...

Good eatin’

A hot dog tastes better when served with a side of justice. 'We answer to a higher authority” is the tagline for Hebrew National’s famously...

Paper chase

The right paperwork can save lives among the world’s stateless people. After a record turnout of nearly 60 million Americans marched through voting...

Now that’s a cold war!

Let’s melt these nationalists’ cold, cold hearts and build an Arctic circle of cooperation. Retreating ice briefly turned the Arctic circle into an...