15+ hour, 8+ min ago  (381+ words) Image: "Virginia Executive Mansion" by Leonard Woody on Wikipedia By this time next week, many of you will be preparing for July 4 festivities and probably not checking your email. Since this week is a bit slow'I have many articles brewing,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (238+ words) Image: "Kirkland Hall at Vanderbilt University" by Jaydenwithay on Wikimedia Commons State does offer a reasonably good summary of the (true) case for the prosecution against the academy: Not that State actually endorses anything bolder than thinking concertedly about such…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (914+ words) What do Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Mark Zuckerberg, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Paul Newman, Harry Truman, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all have in common? They were college dropouts. But Mia, the hypothetical student in the essay below, isn't…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (182+ words) Image: "Harvard Medical School" by SBAmin on Wikimedia Commons Editor's Note: The following article was originally published on the National Association of Scholarson May 6, 2026. With edits to match Minding the Campus's style, it is crossposted here with permission. Lightning rarely…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (123+ words) Image by Vitalii Vodolazskyi on Adobe; Asset ID#: 414613183 Key reforms and their potential savings for taxpayers over the next 10 years include: Gillen's paper focuses almost exclusively on fiscal matters. There are moments when larger ideals surface, as when he proposes…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (333+ words) Art by Joe Nalven Much has been written about large language models (LLMs) and their promise for scholarship. What remains less explored is what knowledge actually means for humans versus artificial intelligence (AI)not simply symbolic reasoning versus neural networks,…...