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The Essential Skills Students Need to Acquire in College
Students don’t learn what they’re not taught.
The Human and Environmental Cost of the Green Transition
Mr. Kurtz is not dead.
The Weight of the Past
Tom Stoppard, Peter Cozzens and the ways that history weighs on the present.
Do Today’s Colleges Resemble 1970s Detroit?
Detractors point to bloated bureaucracies, complacency, declining quality, a lack of focus, broken business models and an inability to adapt. Do they have a leg to stand on?
The Value of Stochastic Thinking
How ideas about randomness, chance, uncertainty and probability are radically reshaping the humanities and the social and physical sciences.
The Radical Reinvention of the English Language
Neologisms, slang, jargon, acronyms and loanwords are reshaping the language right before our eyes.
Let’s Give Our Regards to Broadway
It’s a mistake to confine the American musical theater to drama departments.