Note: The following is David Courtwright’s thoughtful response to my earlier post, in which I raised some questions about his recent...

I was talking to a 67-year old relative about Quaalude at a recent family event. (Does this sort of thing happen to you all the time...

And even more shocked to find that other people are being shocked to learn of it.  That’s what’s going on over at Inside Higher Ed today,...

Television narrative has long mined drug and alcohol use and abuse for inciting incidents. As a plot device deployed to inaugurate...

Perhaps it is because I teach in a medical school, rather than a traditional academic history department, but over the past two years I...

One of the rewards of blogging is an instant boost to your awareness of what others are doing with the same sort of forum.  Among other...

A Student Murdered One hot morning last May, the El Paso Times brought news that many of us had been dreading—a student from the...

Points (n.) 1. marks of punctuation. 2. something that has position but not extension, as the intersection of two lines. 3. salient...

The “point” of an academic group blog has been the subject of a fair amount of discussion, and my colleague and co-Managing Editor Trysh...

What is the point of an academic group blog, my co-managing editor Joe Spillane wants to know? It’s a necessary and pleasurable adjunct...