The air is crisp. The leaves are falling. In New England there are cider donuts. All of this is delightful. And it means that it is – praise be! – the beginning of my Academic Conference Season. And you know I love to write about conferences. Should I go to them? What . . .
Two academic “scandals” dominated my news feeds a few weeks ago, before the upheavals in Baltimore and Nepal turned our attention to more pressing and important matters. The revelations that Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr.’s “erased” a slave owner (who, it turns out, may not have directly owned slaves after all but . . .
