While researching what would end up being a poorly written essay on modernization theory and Laos (don’t ask), I came across the Journal of Higher Education, a topic that interests me verily, and I read a few articles. One that stood out was a comparison between the US and Canadian university systems in terms of [...]

This ia weird little story, that I don’t know all the details of. I am just researching an essay about Laos, a country I visited twice in the past. (Reading the history is very useful, and makes me realize that many of the judgments and assumptions I made about the country when I was there, [...]

I first became aware of the process of unionizing the workers at SODEXHO during a meeting, where we were shown the excellent movie “Occupation” about students staging a sit-in at Harvard university – the second wealthiest non-profit in the world, after the Vatican – to fight for living wages for the university staff. They also [...]