Author: Andrew Ross Sorkin (@andrewrsorkin) Article: "N.Y.U. Crisis in Abu Dhabi Stretches to Wall Street," May 26, 2014 10:14 pm Grade: C College professors teach their students that written arguments must be based on cited evidence. Depending on the field, that...
Deb and I have written a reflection on Sunday's inaugural NYUAD Commencement. It'll be published in the "Opinion" section of tomorrow's National, but the online version is already available here. Also available is the full video of the Commencement ceremony: Yours...
I had the honor of serving in the "color guard" during the inaugural NYU Abu Dhabi commencement today, which meant that I got to carry the NYU NY flag at the head of the procession of graduating seniors as they entered the hall. (The other flags represented the US,...
Cosmopolitanism and the Liberal Arts 2 OCTOBER 2013 Cosmopolitanism NYU Abu Dhabi Scholarship and Teaching It was great fun speaking on this subject last Friday at Harvard. Thanks to everyone who came to me over the next couple of days to talk further about...
The panel on which I spoke yesterday was called "1983 Thinks Big: 5 for 10." Here's how it was billed: "Modeled on Harvard Thinks Big and Ted Talks, five classmates who are professors in various fields and at various universities each give a 10-minute talk on their...
I'm on my way to my thirtieth college reunion in Cambridge, Massachusetts. My, oh my, how time flies! This trip marks the furthest I've had to travel for a reunion, but this time I'll be part of the program. I'm giving a brief TED-style talk tomorrow, as part of a...
My review of Philip Hoare's latest book, The Sea Inside, appeared recently in The National, Abu Dhabi's English-language newspaper. It bore the headline "Deep connections: Philip Hoare's seminal encounter with a blue whale," and you can find it here. The book is a...
The New York Times has published a brief letter that I wrote in response to an op-ed piece entitled "The War in Washington Square" by my NYU colleague Jeff Goodwin, who is a professor of sociology. Here's the text of my letter as they published it: I have been working...
I'm a little less confused than I've been. In my post "Disagreeing with the Vote of No Confidence," I was struck by the number 682 -- the number of voters eligible to participate in last week's FAS vote of no confidence in President Sexton. I noted that "my wife, who...