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My AI thinks Civics is Black Studies
Is there really a civics-sized hole in university curricula?
Apr 17 • Hollis Robbins
The most dangerous student on campus
Let's hear from the repeat customers
Apr 16 • Hollis Robbins
Marginal Literary Revolution
Average Poetry, Marginal Great Books
Apr 14 • Hollis Robbins
Automatic for the people
Rand, Pound, and second-hand prose
Apr 7 • Hollis Robbins
Milgram's subjects were never aligned
Machine learning shocks
Apr 1 • Hollis Robbins

March 2026

What should a university AI czar do?
Advice for a flourishing future
Mar 27 • Hollis Robbins
For the love of God, learn to paragraph
LLMs' wrongs redressed
Mar 23 • Hollis Robbins
Why did it take a NYTimes investigation?
How a statewide political curriculum dampens serious scholarship
Mar 21 • Hollis Robbins
The AI campus gender wars ahead
A call to cancel first-year writing
Mar 16 • Hollis Robbins
The Great Syllabus Stagnation
What Hayek tells us about the coming higher ed collapse
Mar 12 • Hollis Robbins
Pittsburgh, Austin, the Cosmos, and the Local
A report on recent gatherings
Mar 10 • Hollis Robbins
Your LLM needs a grandmother
A response to Acemoglu, Kong, and Ozdaglar
Mar 3 • Hollis Robbins
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