Category: Personal updates
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With the academic year wrapped up and a long overdue handbook chapter completed, the time has come to switch gears, which also provides an opportunity to post a brief update, also long overdue. It was a tough semester with a lot of campus drama, most of it unnecessary but none of it surprising. I did,…
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At the end of this dizzying year, and on the occasion of my fiftieth birthday, I offer my reflections on the last twelve months in terms of work—reflections that, to quote Rick Blaine, "don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world," where matters of much greater importance are going on. <gestures wildly…
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I know, it's been six months since my last post, but this is the first day in a long time I've felt upbeat about things in my life. (So I thought I'd better post while it lasts, right?) Like many people, I've been very overwhelmed the last few months, especially since the fall semester started.…
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Wow, the first post of 2021—I didn't realize I hadn't posted here yet this year. In some ways, it seems like a different world since my last update/annual wrap-up, with the coronavirus situation slowly improving (at least in the US) and the political situation having changed in some obvious ways, while stubbornly resistant to change…
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Warning: This is gonna be short. If you read my last two posts (here and here), both titled "Work in a pandemic," there won't be any surprises here. It was more than enough to keep up with teaching* and my duties as department chair during a constant panic mode at my college, while trying to…
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I had little reason to write this other than that it has been three months since my last post… three dreadfully long and eventful months in the real world, while little seems to have changed in my tiny corner of it (other than my hair). All the things I wrote last time about difficulties focusing…
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Well. I wish I had written one of these a month ago. By the middle of March, my university went online, and now, at the end of March, 75% of Americans are living in some state of lockdown as the numbers of people infected and lost around the world continue to climb. We are all,…
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This was a difficult year's-end review to write. 2019 was not a good year for me, neither professionally nor personally, and although I did have a good number of things come out, based on past efforts, I produced very little new material over the last twelve months. I had two books published this year, Batman…
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It's been a strange year so far in terms of work (both writing and school), so the true updates in this post will be few, and instead I'll focus on things coming out in the near future. My main project since the beginning of the year has been my antitrust book, but I did not…
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I'm feeling rather ambivalent about my life these days (see here) — which is not unusual for me the last ten years or so, but still. I have, however, come to some realizations of late that may suggest a corner is about to be turned. We'll get to that in due time… in the meantime,…
Mark D. White 