At American universities, nap pods and meditation apps paper over backbreaking workloads. As higher education increasingly conforms to corporate logic, its most durable product becomes a student with a proven capacity for overwork.

Feminist trailblazer Gloria Steinem gave us a forbidden knowledge, which helped liberate a generation of women — but the work isn't done.

Steinem faced a problem familiar to many activist writers: how to live according to your political principles without sacrificing your art—or vice versa.

For decades, the acclaimed poet worked on a manuscript that she believed could be a guide for a radical future of Black land stewardship. But it was never published.

Companies like Google and Microsoft have used their money, their might and their massive reach to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain.

Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper

Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. A growing movement, led by alarmed parents, is saying enough.

Nobody wants to join a boring movement. Socialists can’t change the world if we aren’t providing people with a good time.

“Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?”

Low-cost virtual pre-conference workshops for ACH 2026, June 22-23, 2026. Topics include DH pedagogy, web archiving, and DH at teaching-focused institutions.

The following speech was given at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize ceremony on November 10, 2025. * I want to thank my editor, Jordan Pavlin, il miglior fabro, for believing in me and this book from…

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An interview with Kathi Weeks.

Preliminary data from the nation's largest faculty compensation survey shows real wages fell for the first time since the pandemic.

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data c...

It wasn't just bigger than the previous #nokings. It was different. Here's how USA Today unpacks that: "The organizers' crowd count, not verified by independent analysts, put the total at 8 million pe...

As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities – and society at large

As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

Imported chips and hardware mean the AI investemtns are translating into US GDP growth.