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The main thing I did last year was finish my book about Kierkegaard, and it took a lot of out of me
However, I did write a lot about AI and education
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Permission Structures
How AI-skeptic Professors Can Still Help Students Write Papers
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Dad Jokes
My favorite recent SNL sketch is called “Baby Shower.” Brie Larsen, pregnant, is surrounded by a group of moms who all have the same hairstyle — you…
Nov 5, 2025
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Nein
In the beginning computer scientists made the internet.
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Some books I read this summer
The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt
Aug 28, 2025
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Nein
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Freedom from Leisure
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The Absolute Work of Slop: Reflections on My Summer with K-Pop Demon Hunters
Aug 27, 2025
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It's not just a calculator
Aug 28, 2024
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The Single Book Course
Nov 29, 2022
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The Absolute Work of Slop: Reflections on My Summer with K-Pop Demon Hunters
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AI in Higher Education
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Ravelstein at 25
Thoughts About the Real Thing and a plug for my new essay at The Hedgehog Review
Mar 7, 2025
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"Now, select your printer"
It has been cold here in Fredericton.
Feb 5, 2025
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The Ne'erdowell
Three poems I have made about myself
Oct 3, 2024
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It's not just a calculator
The fact that we had a global emergency that became a professor emergency only four years ago should not obscure the reality that genuine pedagogical…
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Be Mean
I got my start as a non-academic writer in 2018 with a piece for The Hedgehog Review called “Be Nice.” The essay was pretty well-received and gave me…
Jul 2, 2024
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the tablelands
a vignette
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on four different ways to lie to yourself
This semester I have been co-teaching a class on ancient and modern accounts of science.
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