Vol. 70 Editors' Note: Service
Who do you serve? Who do you protect?
Sunday Reading
...power of mobilized students and the current limits of this power." Selling (out) the good old days Two months of New York Times opinion essays about higher education On the...
Solving Happiness
...exported CBT into education policy: Many schools now include positive psychology in their curriculum, including KIPP charter schools in the U.S. and several academies in the UK. One of the...
The Cult of the Chafing Dish
...in college social life." -- from the Proceedings of the Annual Session of the Iowa State Education Association (1907) As much of a splash as the salad in the third...
Seeing Red
...education. Dropping down a Wal-Mart selling dozens of heads of lettuce in a poor neighborhood will not solve those problems. It will exacerbate them. And so it happens that the...
The Myth of Liberal Policing
For liberals, police reform is always a question of helping police sustain their legitimacy, despite their illegitimate roots
Life on Autopilot
An interview with Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley, a memoir about the tech-bro universe’s notions of progress
Sunday Reading
...field of education that there began to develop a new wind that would change the country." Special pleading: on the identity politics of "Blue Lives Matter" Kerim Friedman: "Civility" Fence?...
Grudge Lust
...a foolish, affected manner, she is always speaking of a “he.” Despite her wit and education, Shonagon did not write for a public audience and was not known as a...
Sunday Reading
...black voices on crime" Why did Soul City fail?[radio 33:59] Kerim Friedman: Palestinian Anthropologists Speak: Dina Omar Israeli Violations of Palestinian Academic Freedom & Access to Education Is an Academic...
Reader's Digest
...really be poor!’? These and other such austere lessons (arguably the real content of his education) instilled in Balzac an acute sensitivity to matters gustatorial. He understood that food did...
Sunday Reading
...(transcript of oral arguments) A brief history of black students' militant struggle at University of Michigan Sold out: On the privatization of public education in the UK We have something...
Sunday Reading
...crisis The education of a scholar who chose to become a black man The hidden costs of going Greek Berkeley students want nothing to do with racist Bill Maher Policing...
The Grouch
...that it’s OK to make mistakes. Urban decay and ethnic diversity were presented as contiguous with community, education and love. The cast tiptoe around his mood, humouring his outbursts with...
Factory Made
A history of modernity as a history of factories struggles to see beyond their walls
Sunday Reading
...of Madison? Taking on Teach For America How Barbara Byrd-Bennett worsened racial inequality and hurt public education in Chicago Japanese university humanities and social sciences programs under attack ...