I do need an excuse to write about the history of hedgehogs as the NATO mascot.

I’m also delighted to learn about Boris the boar mascot.

It’s also not as if it is widely seen as an asset or even a net neutral. In plenty of places, a PhD on your resume is viewed as a negative!

Big surprise: specialization makes you look specialized!

One of my preferred ways to start to fill in the blanks when Canadian material is woefully thin!

History teaches us [insert thing I already believe].

Major increases in cost, even when adjusted for inflation, contributing to at least two other trends: (1) cost lends itself to narratives of elitism and (2) changing expectations about what education should provide to be a “good” ROI that frame some “culture war” attack on the humanities.

So, a biography of George Marshall?

c) All of the above.