And, in what I hope is my last post on foreign policy realism for the day, I think there’s a general problem with the oft-elided distinction between descriptive and prescriptive realism. Descriptive ...

Unaccustomed as I am to getting anything right, I was shocked when, after one caucus and one primary, my choice for Democratic presidential nominee led the pack. Six months ago, I put it in print: I ...

Choosing the right dictionary can be as bewildering as choosing the right computer. Dictionaries today offer about as many features, which may not always be useful to you, such as biographical or ...

A review of An English Language Primer Focused on Sri Lanka (Especially for Tamil Readers) by Prof. S.R.H. Hoole. It is said that the first lexicographer Samuel Johnson ushered a new orientation to ...

I was watching a short video by Babson College Prof. Thomas Davenport on the Harvard Business Review website recently and found it to be a good, simplified explanation of analytics. (Stop! Don't swipe ...

While predictive analytics have been an ed tech buzzword in recent years, they are but a midpoint in the evolution of data analytics in higher education. What began as descriptive analytics, the ...