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  • A Rare Exception to the 24/7 Woke Rule at NPR

    A Rare Exception to the 24/7 Woke Rule at NPR13

    There are probably more than a few Americans who can remember when NPR endeavored to speak to and for a much larger piece of the public than it does now. I was once a regular listener. This was way back in the days of Garrison Keillor, who was unpersoned by #MeToo a few years back, and

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  • A Quick Guide to Writing an Excellent Essay

    A Quick Guide to Writing an Excellent Essay5

    Introduction, statement of case, outline, proof, refutation, conclusion: the six parts of organization are, remember, parts, not necessarily paragraphs. Though students have often been taught that every paragraph must have a topic sentence, one sentence that distills the proof in the paragraph which is proving the thesis, that is not strictly true. What is essential

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  • A Question for Harvard: Who Actually Wins from Racial Preferences?

    A Question for Harvard: Who Actually Wins from Racial Preferences?1

    Sarah, a young African-American woman I’ve known for more than a decade, will apply soon to college. She’s gifted, motivated, and wise beyond her years. Sarah thrived in a neighborhood beset by sexual predators, addiction, and crime. I hope admissions officers will take into account the social and economic hardships she has faced and recognize

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  • A Psychologist Explains the 4 Things Gambling Does to Your Brain

    A Psychologist Explains the 4 Things Gambling Does to Your Brain4

    To call gambling a “game of chance” evokes fun, random luck and a sense of collective engagement. These playful connotations may be part of why almost 80 percent of American adults gamble at some point in their lifetime. When I ask my psychology students why they think people gamble, the most frequent suggestions are for

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  • A Psychological Explanation for Why Your Boss is a Moron

    A Psychological Explanation for Why Your Boss is a Moron0

    In 1999 David Dunning, a psychologist at Cornell University, and a graduate student, Justin Kruger, published a paper. Its hypothesis became known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and it went something like this (to quote Dunning): “…incompetent people do not recognize—scratch that, cannot recognize—just how incompetent they are.” According to Dunning and Kruger, incompetent people will: 1.Often

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  • A Proposal to Kill Irony

    A Proposal to Kill Irony0

    In the literary world, postmodernism was a movement defined by cynicism, absurdism, satire, and irony. At some point, it stopped being a tool with which to diagnose the culture and became the personality of our culture. It crept into our conversations, our art, our politics, and eventually into the way we talk to those we

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