Kurt Mitman | Roads to Rhodes
(12/10/13 10:27pm)
Another year and another drought of Rhodes and Marshall scholars for Penn.
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Kurt Mitman | Back to reality
(11/21/13 9:55pm)
We all wanted to know. My friends, acquaintances, even my grandmother. It seemed like that was all anyone could talk about that summer. We were mesmerized.
Kurt Mitman | Obama-Doesn’t-Care
(11/11/13 10:33pm)
The clock was about to strike midnight. My boyfriend and I were lounging in bed — we were about to do something we never thought we’d do together. After months of prep, lots of waiting and a ton of research, it was going to be our first time…
Kurt Mitman | Trolls R Us
(09/26/13 10:13pm)
Over the three semesters I’ve written this column, I’ve received a lot of support from the online comments on my articles.
Kurt Mitman | Researcher or hack?
(09/23/13 10:40pm)
Last Thursday night, I gave a TED-style talk as part of TEDxGradfest. I spoke to the hundreds assembled about my research on unemployment, in which I find that most of the persistently high unemployment following the end of the Great Recession can be explained by unemployment benefit extensions.
Kurt Mitman | Unilaterally ending unilateralism
(09/11/13 8:10pm)
If you tuned in to President Obama’s Tuesday evening address on Syria, you might have thought a completely different Obama was talking.
Kurt Mitman | In government we trust?
(09/05/13 8:56pm)
Ben Franklin famously remarked that those who trade freedom for safety deserve neither. Somewhere along the line — between shutting down Boston after the marathon bombing and the National Security Agency’s PRISM program — we seem to have lost our way.
Kurt Mitman | Summer of our discontent
(08/30/13 2:22am)
The gay and lesbian community has been dumping Russian vodka this summer to protest a curtailment of rights in that country. But are those efforts going down the drain along with the vodka?
Summer of our discontent
(08/28/13 9:02pm)
Kurt Mitman | ‘Thank God’ for the NRA
(04/19/13 4:08am)
On Monday, terrorists set off two bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Three people have died — one of whom was eight years old — and more than 170 people were injured as a result of the blasts.
Kurt Mitman | The only thing to fear
(04/16/13 6:36am)
Just a few months ago, I was rounding the circle in front of the Philadelphia Art Museum, approaching the half marathon finish line of the Philadelphia Marathon. My lungs were burning and my legs were aching, but I high fived Mayor Nutter as I crossed the finish line, basking in the cheers of the throng of spectators assembled.
Kurt Mitman | The cheating equilibrium
(04/11/13 3:52am)
My first experience with cheating at Penn came when I was a teaching assistant. I regularly attended the lectures for the course and sat in the back of the classroom. One day when homework was due, I saw that one of the students sitting in front of me asked the student sitting next to her for his homework. She proceeded to copy his assignment during the class time. I was dumbfounded — the students knew I was sitting directly behind them!
Kurt Mitman | Internalize this
(04/05/13 3:52am)
The University stands to lose $80 million in research funding as a result of last month’s sequester.
Kurt Mitman | ’Til Constitution do us part
(03/29/13 4:07am)
The news cycle this week has been dominated by hearings at the Supreme Court debating the constitutionality of Proposition 8 — the gay marriage ban in California — and the Defense of Marriage Act, which, for the purposes of the federal government, defines marriage as between one man and one woman.
Kurt Mitman | A wasted opportunity
(03/22/13 4:39am)
This week, Barack Obama made his first official visit to Israel as president.
Kurt Mitman | Spring forward, fall flat
(03/15/13 3:55am)
I’ve been having a bad week.
Kurt Mitman | Spend away
(02/22/13 4:44am)
The Supreme Court this week agreed to hear a challenge to limits on campaign contributions by individuals made directly to political candidates and committees.
Kurt Mitman | There won't be blood
(02/15/13 6:11am)
Walking down Locust Walk last week and earlier this week, I was solicited several times by brothers from Zeta Beta Tau and Sigma Delta Tau to donate blood for their annual blood drive.
Kurt Mitman | Guess who should come to dinner
(02/08/13 5:50am)
Last week, senior faculty of the Africana Studies Department incited a heated debate on campus in their letter to Amy Gutmann bemoaning the lack of diversity in appointments to senior administration officials at Penn.
Kurt Mitman | Pro reforma
(02/01/13 6:01am)
Eighty-six of 874 federal judgeships sit vacant.