I am on leave in 2013/14 and will focus all my attention on my academic work. So I am taking a break from my column writing. Time to write a book, not just short texts!

I have finally posted the text of my column “Writing Is Thinking” here. If you are interested in the topic, you can read two talks I have given for graduate students at Duke on the same topic. The first is called “The Fantasy of the Clear Day” (2011) and the second is called “Writing for Others, Or, What I have learned about Academic Writing from Writing for Newspapers” (2013). Links or pdf to both are here.

My column about the latest OECD report about higher education, which shows that Norwegian universities have a very low completion rate, created quite a lot of debate. Many readers have asked me for the text. I have now posted the pdf here.