“Academia is both a big issue as well as a personal one for me,” Nick explains in episode five of The Far Middle. Nick explores a number of issues facing academia today; the cost of college tuition, the culture of academia, how the college campus is no longer a marketplace of ideas, the impact of administrative bureaucracy on students/families/taxpayers, Title IX, and much more.
In this special holiday Far Middle installment, Nick begins by looking back on the Christmas Truce of 1914 during World War I. The remarkable...
Episode 144 of The Far Middle falls just after Presidents’ Day 2024. Accordingly, Nick notes a few U.S. presidents that are underrated, overrated, and...
The Far Middle episode 120 begins with a little Labor Day history, including the debate of whether it was labor leader Peter McGuire or...