All articles from Hollis Robbins

Notes on Spite

Many things in the world have not been named openly; and many things, even if they are admitted, have never been described. One is the unsung sensibility โ€“ a sentiment and power source, a secret reservoir, unmistakable and timeless, a variant of umbrage but hardly identical with it โ€“ known as spite.

The Claude Test

The single biggest question facing higher education in the AI era, when students everywhere are logging on to pro AI models for information on every subject on earth is, who sprinkles the magic dust that turns learning into a degree?I've written here, here, and here about how universities need to re