Milan Markovic and Mike Boylan-Kolchin are two former college roommates who somehow ended up as professors in Texas. Tune in for incisive takes on higher education and academic life.
Latest Episodes
Mediocre Men
Milan and Mike connect the Trump administration's inquiry into the Yale School of Medicine to its promotion of mediocre men.
Administrators Gone Wild
Bizarre events at Cornell, Columbia, and Michigan cause Milan and Mike to wonder about the cloistered worlds of university presidents.
Flight of the Academics
Milan and Mike ponder whether recent academic departures are a harbinger for red states.
Revoking Tenure
Milan and Mike discuss recent dismissals of tenured faculty for political speech and differentiate shoddy scholarship from research misconduct.
AI for Scholarship?
Milan and Mike take a hard line against AI-assisted scholarship while recognizing its growing impact on publishing and the academic enterprise.
