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“If we are to reclaim our university, faculty and students must do it together.” By Nara Milanich at Time: Faculty have different opinions about the substance of the student protestors’
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Damon Linker in Notes From the Middleground: I first became a TNR (The New Republic) subscriber in 1992, when one of my teachers in graduate school told me it was
Clifford Thompson at Commonweal: “For generations in the mind of America, the Negro has been more of a formula than a human being—a something to be argued about, condemned or
The Ideas Letter: The war in Gaza has inspired powerful protest, unyielding contestation, and claims of genocide. In this issue, we solicited three contributions that aim to bring new perspectives
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Tom Barson in Wisdom of Crowds: I’ve only witnessed one pitched battle in person, and it cured me of any wish to see another. It was not a firefight, like those
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Literary Review May 2024 Issue: Women are everywhere in classical literature and mythology, but the lives of actual women in the ancient world are much more obscure. In the May
Hot air rises—and so, unfortunately, do many of the aspiring leaders who spout it. Why do we continue to mistake confidence for competence, and what should we be doing differently?
Martin Mroz at Quora: There are a number of serious consequences of obtaining US citizenship that apply to you and your children in perpetuity that you may not be aware
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Mark Blacklock at Literary Review: Evidently, the time is ripe for a survey of the branch of cultural production concerned with the end of the world. And yet, as Lynskey
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Elle Griffin at The Elysian: In 2022, Penguin Random House wanted to buy Simon & Schuster. The two publishing houses made up 37 percent and 11 percent of the market
Liz Wolfe at the Reason: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague is expected to issue a decision today on whether military arms suppliers bear culpability for how
Continue readingThe Genocide Question Plus College Protest Follow-Up
by Derek Neal in 3 Quarks Daily: There is a meme on the internet that you probably know, the one that goes, “Men will do x instead of going to