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The Essential Skills Students Need to Acquire in College
April 28, 2023
Students don’t learn what they’re not taught.
The Weight of the Past
April 25, 2023
Tom Stoppard, Peter Cozzens and the ways that history weighs on the present.
Do Today’s Colleges Resemble 1970s Detroit?
April 24, 2023
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
April 21, 2023
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
April 20, 2023
Neologisms, slang, jargon, acronyms and loanwords are reshaping the language right before our eyes.
Let’s Give Our Regards to Broadway
April 19, 2023
It’s a mistake to confine the American musical theater to drama departments.