In a post for Prospect, Christopher Fear asks why academic political theory is so remote from political practice. He concludes that it’s because political theorists devote themselves to eternal ...

To call something an “academic question” is, for most people, a put-down. But to anyone at a university, it’s a redundancy. A scholar spends a lifetime exploring difficult questions. In the classroom, ...

When my daughters were in high school, they both played on various teams. Soccer, cross-country running, cross-country skiing and tennis. Games and tournaments often started in the late afternoon.

Benchmarks are important tools for tracking the rapid advancements in large language model (LLM) capabilities. However, benchmarks are not keeping pace in difficulty: LLMs now achieve more than 90% ...

Teachers no longer hear only questions about lessons. They hear worry, fatigue, and fear. What reaches the teacher’s desk today is less about unfinished homework and more about unfinished calm.This is ...

Men ask more questions then women in academic conferences and are more visible. Roads Academy Masterclass, Warwick University, November 2010. HA1-000602/Flickr, CC BY-SA Why should we be concerned ...