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  • Check Out David Foster Wallace’s Course Syllabus

    Check Out David Foster Wallace’s Course Syllabus0

    • August 3, 2015

    With the July 31 release of the biopic The End of the Tour, the late author David Foster Wallace is once again in the news. Wallace is best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time named one of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. For your interest, here is a link

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  • Cheating Linked to Unfaithful Parents, Study Finds

    Cheating Linked to Unfaithful Parents, Study Finds0

    Marital fidelity doesn’t come easily. When the cheating website Ashley Madison was hacked in 2015, it was revealed that the company had some 37 million users. The same year, in a YouGov survey, one in five Americans admitted to being unfaithful.   If these numbers don’t persuade you, consider the words J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to

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  • CHAZ Holds a Record for Marxist Utopias

    CHAZ Holds a Record for Marxist Utopias0

    One of the more amusing spectacles of the recent protests has been the establishment of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) – now called the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) – in the middle of downtown Seattle, Washington. Conservatives on social media have had a field day making light of the pint-sized experiment in neo-Marxist

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  • ChatGPT: The Modern Oracle

    ChatGPT: The Modern Oracle1

    “All men by nature desire to know,” says Aristotle at the beginning of his Metaphysics. This is a natural, healthy, even virtuous, longing in the human heart. But it can also get us into trouble when that desire is corrupted. ChatGPT and similar AI technologies are powerful information tools, but their use does not come

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  • ChatGPT Can Get Off My Lawn

    ChatGPT Can Get Off My Lawn4

    Will artificial intelligence become the greatest boon to higher education since online learning? (This assumes that online learning was a boon, which is a topic for another day.) Or will it mean the utter destruction of academia as we know it? Those are the two views I see expressed most often these days, with various individuals

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  • ChatGPT and the Undoing of Education

    ChatGPT and the Undoing of Education0

    It is official: ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. If you are unaware, ChatGPT is an AI-based language tool that acts as an interlocutor. It can ask and answer questions, and it can apparently even admit when it has made an error. Not bound by the slick walls of tech startups in Silicon Valley,

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