Choosing the Reith lecturer every year is one of the privileges of the job. It is a rather wonderful piece of patronage (for me, at any rate) and poses numerous challenges. I look every year for ...

This story has been updated to include a comment from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Politically based firings, new laws dictating what topics can be taught, and forced displays of ...

Most people dread attending their lectures because they find them painfully boring, long or stressful. That’s not my experience, though. I think attending lectures is fun because I become my most ...