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A Compromise Candidate for Speaker of the House

Kevin McCarthy’s a no-go as Speaker of the House. Six votes in, and he’s gone down from 203 votes to 201. So, now what?

5 min readJan 5, 2023

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A Compromise Candidate for Speaker of the House

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John Knox

The Kids ARE Alright

Half-Baked College Kids?

6 min read21 hours ago

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The Kids ARE Alright

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John Knox

The Biden FTC Noncompete Ban is a BFD You Need to Know About

The Federal Trade Commission’s ban on noncompete clauses is, as Joe Biden would say, a BFD — a big [financial] deal. Here’s why.

7 min readApr 25, 2024

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The Biden FTC Noncompete Ban is a BFD You Need to Know About

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Two Birds, One Swiftian Stone: Fixing Research Universities AND the Science Funding Mess

Hi, I’m a science professor at a major research university in the U.S. Two of the seemingly intractable problems that are ever-present in…

18 min readMar 19, 2024

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Two Birds, One Swiftian Stone: Fixing Research Universities AND the Science Funding Mess

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John Knox

A Very Simple Theory of Higher Education Excellence

I’ve been on one side or the other of college for the past 40 years. I began my undergraduate career just a few months after the “A Nation…

13 min readJul 12, 2023

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A Very Simple Theory of Higher Education Excellence

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John Knox

Luda the Cat

Luda Cat Knox (2006–2022)

6 min readAug 5, 2022

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Luda the Cat

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John Keats 1821–2021

Two hundred years ago today, one of the great poets in the English language died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. One hundred years ago…

3 min readFeb 23, 2021

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John Keats 1821–2021

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John Knox

Cancel Culture’s Victims: A Not-Short List

Donald Trump. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Josh Hawley. We are told that because of being blocked on Twitter, or being accused (correctly) for…

4 min readFeb 10, 2021

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Cancel Culture’s Victims: A Not-Short List

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John Knox

My Taylor-Made Story About Nobelist Paul Crutzen

In which my shortcomings as a research scientist led to a nice e-mail from the only Nobel Prize winner in my discipline’s history

15 min readFeb 3, 2021

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My Taylor-Made Story About Nobelist Paul Crutzen

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John Knox

Originalism is Displaced Religious Fundamentalism

The topic of the moment in American politics is “originalism,” on public display at the Amy Coney Barrett hearings. For those of us who…

4 min readOct 15, 2020

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Originalism is Displaced Religious Fundamentalism

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John Knox

John Knox

A geography professor and meteorologist at UGA in Athens, GA. I write about news, sports, weather, climate, education, journalism, religion, poetry, the South.

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