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On the Giving and Taking of Advice
The mother of us all: Pauline Friedman Phillips, aka Abigail “Dear Abby” van Buren Ten years ago, in the midst of a conversation, a colleague temporarily lost her temper at me. “Please stop giving me...
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Homophobia at Harvard and Other Hideous Horrors
In the intellectual spirit of the man himself, let me ask a counterfactual: why have so many people temporarily abandoned longstanding critiques of Niall Ferguson in favor of condemning him as a...
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General Radical Marches on Atlanta; or, Fun @ The OAH Annual Meeting
Air travel and conferencing can have the effect of making me feel as though I am not really anywhere at all. I certainly believe that I have been in nearly every major hotel, in nearly every major...
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I Didn’t Defame You — I Just Used You: On Hashtag Activism
Earlier this week, I retweeted a link to a media report about a personnel issue at another campus. A friend of mine subsequently wrote to say that I ought to have investigated the report further, as...
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Women With A Past: Big Berks Day 1
Why no posting? Where has Tenured Radical been lately? Just preparing for the most awesome history conference ever! Yep. It happens every three years, and the time is now. The Sixteenth Berkshire...
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Moving Experiences
One of many lies you will encounter on your journey to your new home. Facebook is full of transitions right now. Some people who already had tenured or tenure-track jobs are moving to new ones. Newly,...
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School’s Out For Summer: Are You Writing Yet?
The children in Enid Blyton books were always being sent away: it always went awry in some exciting way, and yet the parents never lost their faith in the soundness of sending their children away. At...
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Bye-Bye Birdies: Sending The Kids Away to College
They grow up so fast if you let them All over the United States, slowly but surely, families are preparing for the ritual of Sending the Kid to College. Some will be living at home and going to a local...
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Academic Life Made Simple: Five Things to Think About
Thinking about behavior and attitudes that are taken for granted in the academy can be useful. These are not the only five things, but here goes: When discussing a problem at your university with...
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Being a Public Intellectual: Historians and the Public
These are my prepared remarks from session 130, #AHA2015. Tenured Radical was launched on October 18, 2006, in New Haven Connecticut. In a little more than seven years I have written 1,794 posts on...
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