Author Archives: Doug Bennett

About Doug Bennett

Doug Bennett is Emeritus President and Professor of Politics at Earlham College. He has a wife, Ellen, and two sons, Tommy (born 1984) and Robbie (born 2003).

Our Far-Flung Alumni: Peter Suber (’73)

Posted on May 24, 2013

May 24, 2013 May 21, 2013—The Harvard Library and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University are pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Suber as director of the Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC), starting July 1, … Continue reading →

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Coaches First

Posted on May 13, 2013

May 13, 2013 What do we value? Sometimes a picture does tell it all. Last week, Reuben Fischer-Baum at Deadspin produced this graphic asking Is Your State’s Highest-Paid Employee A Coach? (Probably). The uniformity tells you something very powerful is … Continue reading →

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Should Everyone Go To College?

Posted on May 10, 2013

May 10, 2013 Or perhaps this should be titled “College Costs: the Dishonest Conversation (3)” (see below). Must reading this week is a report from The Brookings Institution by Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill titled Should Everyone Go To College?  … Continue reading →

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Meanings: “Public”

Posted on May 8, 2013

May 8, 2013 “Public” means of “of or pertaining to the people,” and its etymology is straightforward from a Latin term meaning the same thing. From etymology.com: public (adj.) mid-15c., “pertaining to the people,” from Old French public (c.1300), from … Continue reading →

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Meanings: “Thespian”

Posted on May 6, 2013

May 6, 2013 Thespians unite! News from all over: “A troupe of street drummers got a shock when Helen Mirren, dressed as Queen Elizabeth II, emerged from a London theatre to berate them for disrupting her show,” reports The Telegraph, … Continue reading →

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