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Commensurability and Adding Fractions

Adding fractions is one of the hardest topics in the 7th grade math class I teach.

16 hrs ago • 

Eric Rasmusen

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October 2025

"The Great Feminization": Women as Individuals versus in Groups [C] (diversity needs dilution)

Helen Andrews recently published in Compact magazine an essay that has become an instant classic, “The Great Feminization”.

Oct 20 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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The 2025 Censorship of the Indiana Daily Student

Indiana University just fired the director of the student newspaper, and abruptly eliminated its occasional print edition just two days before the next…

Oct 17 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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The Real Meaning of the Baseball-Boys-on-Boxes Cartoon: Inefficiency Is Bad

This classic cartoon is wonderful in depiction and discussable in message.

Oct 6 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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September 2025

Should People Glad Charlie Kirk Is Dead Be Punished?

Hate speech, ugly speech, gross speech, and evil speech are all somewhat subjective.

Sep 23 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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Jeff Sagarin's Visits to My 7th-Grade Math Class and the Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball, a Present for His 77th Birthday

Jeff Sagarin, the famed sports mathematician who supplied numbers to USA Today till they couldn’t afford him any more a couple of years ago, visited my…

Sep 8 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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August 2025

Loyalty Oaths, Diversity Statements, and Free Speech Oaths

Loyalty Oaths

Aug 19 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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The 2025 Suit against Professor DeGraff and MIT for Anti-Semitism

A story has been circulating about a Jewish PhD student in computer science at MIT who was the target of such an intense internet harassment campaign by…

Aug 3 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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July 2025

NetChoice v. Paxton Redux: Algorithm Disclosure

Postscript.

Jul 31 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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Good News for the Cancelled Club

Recently I decided write a letter to “The Cancelled Club,” the various people I’ve met who’ve been pestered by online mobs.

Jul 25 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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U. of North Texas Pays Prof. Timothy Jackson $725,000 for Defaming Him

Timothy Jackson is a professor of music theory at the University of North Texas who specializes in Schenkerian analysis, one of the standard methods for…

Jul 13 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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Is Indiana University Eliminating 116 Low-Enrollment Degrees? Not Really. But It Should Eliminate Some High-Enrollment Degrees

Indiana University announced it is eliminating 116 degrees, including the Statistics, Earth Sciences, and Computational Linguistics B.S.’s, the Art…

Jul 9 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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