Happy Holidays and Happy New Year 2014!

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year 2014!

Thank you for reading. Enjoy a fulfilling res...

Brad DeLong Repeats the Conventional Wisdom

Brad DeLong Repeats the Conventional Wisdom

The Future of Sather Gate? In a recent post at the Berkeley Blog, economist Brad DeLong offered an unusually succinct example of what has passed for...

Union Logic of the Insurance Changes: The Case of Retiree Healthcare

Union Logic of the Insurance Changes: The Case of Retiree Healthcare

We've gotten off-line comments on the ongoing coverage of benefits changes, and I thought it would make sense to address some of the issues publicly....

Obamacare and UC Care

Obamacare and UC Care

We're continuing to get mail from all the campuses about the impacts of UC's cancellation of Blue Cross-Anthem and its replacement by UC Care. Most...

Curating the Humanities

Curating the Humanities

As Lindsay Thomas's critique of the American Academy's The Heart of the Matter makes clear, the increasingly conventional effort to justify the humanities...

National Humanities Report Reinforces Stereotypes about the Humanities

National Humanities Report Reinforces Stereotypes about the Humanities

By Lindsay Thomas (Department of English, UCSB) In June 2013, the American Academy of Arts & Science’s Commission on the Humanities and Social...

Surprising Office Politics at UCSF Mission Bay (Updated 11/25)

Surprising Office Politics at UCSF Mission Bay (Updated 11/25)

Why does it cost too much to build offices for medical faculty in Mission Hall? UCSF is one of the country’s great medical schools, and after hitting...