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Peter C. Herman @pherman.bsky.social · 6d

My new outdoor wok burner and the result. Serious wok hei! 🍽️ #ettp

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Peter C. Herman @pherman.bsky.social · 15d

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

In Light of AI, a Creative Alternative to Essays (opinion)

With the rise of AI-enabled cheating, a creative assignment can be a powerful alternative to the traditional term paper, Peter C. Herman writes.

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Peter C. Herman @pherman.bsky.social · Aug 20

Another reason why kids hate Shakespeare.

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Peter C. Herman @pherman.bsky.social · Aug 20

Years ago, I was put in such a terrible classroom that a student came in a little late, looked around, looked at me, and said "who did you piss off?"

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Peter C. Herman @pherman.bsky.social · Aug 17

FYI: timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion: Artificial intelligence and the end of college education

College is not just about learning content, it’s also about learning how to think about content. AI undermines both by doing your work for you.

timesofsandiego.com

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Peter C. Herman @pherman.bsky.social · Aug 9

Very grateful to Patrick J. McGrath for his review of Early Modern Others in Milton Quarterly. "his is a valuable and timely work, one that offers a perspective on early modern literature and society rarely discussed..." doi.org/10.1111/milt...

Early Modern Others: Resisting Bias in Renaissance LiteraturePeter C. Herman. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 164pp. ISBN 13: 9781032293660. $49.99 (paper).

Click on the article title to read more.

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Peter C. Herman @pherman.bsky.social · Aug 9

Very grateful to Patrick J. McGrath for his review of Early Modern Others in Milton Quarterly. "his is a valuable and timely work, one that offers a perspective on early modern literature and society rarely discussed..." onlinelibrary-wiley-com.libproxy.sdsu.edu/doi/10.1111/...

Peter C. Herman @pherman.bsky.social · Aug 8

Good point. My guess is that Trump has in mind only the top-tier schools. From what I can tell, there's very little interest in colleges and universities farther down the academic ladder.

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Peter C. Herman @pherman.bsky.social · Aug 8

How is the Department of Education supposed to examine admissions if it's supposed to be dissolved?

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Peter C. Herman @pherman.bsky.social · Aug 5

Exactly right. We're not sliding into autocracy; we're there.

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Peter C. Herman @pherman.bsky.social · Aug 5

FYI: timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion: Artificial intelligence and the end of college education

College is not just about learning content, it’s also about learning how to think about content. AI undermines both by doing your work for you.

timesofsandiego.com

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Peter C. Herman @pherman.bsky.social · Aug 4

timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion: Artificial intelligence and the end of college education

College is not just about learning content, it’s also about learning how to think about content. AI undermines both by doing your work for you.

timesofsandiego.com

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Peter C. Herman @pherman.bsky.social · Aug 3

On AI and the imminent end of higher (and lower) education: timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion: Artificial intelligence and the end of college education

College is not just about learning content, it’s also about learning how to think about content. AI undermines both by doing your work for you.

timesofsandiego.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Nov 22

The chairman of the House Oversight Committee is planning to create a new subcommittee to work with the new Department of Government Efficiency, known as “DOGE,” and leading Republicans have agreed to allow Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to serve as its chairwoman.

Marjorie Taylor Greene to Lead ‘DOGE’ Panel and Work With Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy

The rise of the Republican representative from Georgia signals the ascendancy of the MAGA wing of the G.O.P. in Congress.

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Peter C. Herman @pherman.bsky.social · Feb 4

🍽️ Bucatini all’Amatriciana:

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Mar 23

Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down.

Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.

There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.

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Peter C. Herman @pherman.bsky.social · Jul 21

Conservatives say all profs mindlessly parrot "settler colonialism" slogans. That's not true. My book that shows how early modern authors challenged the biases and prejudices of their age. www.amazon.com/Early-Modern...

Early Modern Others

Amazon.com: Early Modern Others: 9781032293660: Herman, Peter C.: Books

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