On Quitting Academia as Full Professors

“Why I left academia” stories have flooded the academic press and internet (see below), along with a cottage industry facilitating such moves. Most are told by graduate students, junior faculty…

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Diplomats and the Rise of “Foodism” in the 1960s and 1970s

For some years, I’ve thought about posting an intermittent series of blog posts under the heading “questions and wild speculations.”  As long as wild speculation is acknowledged for what it…

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The State of American Food

Well, the big publishers are betting on this topic. This month Alfred A. Knopf is releasing Robert Paarlberg’s Resetting the Table: Straight Talk about the Food We Grow and Eat…

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