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  • ‘The Last Jedi’ and the Politicization of Storytelling

    ‘The Last Jedi’ and the Politicization of Storytelling0

    There’s been a disturbance in the franchise: Ambivalence, rather than anticipation, has characterized the online response to Disney’s announcement of the deluge of new Star Wars projects we are to be saturated with over the next several years. And while the trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story (scheduled for May) was expected to be

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  • ‘The Hobbit’ Turns 80

    ‘The Hobbit’ Turns 800

    “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” When Tolkien wrote these words, which would become one of the most famous and most memorable opening sentences in all of literature, he could not have known what literary power would be unleashed by his creation of the diminutive hole-dwelling creature, Bilbo Baggins. This year,

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  • ‘The Anxious Generation’ Has the Worst of Both Worlds

    ‘The Anxious Generation’ Has the Worst of Both Worlds0

    In a blockbuster Atlantic piece, “The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood,” my Let Grow co-founder Jonathan Haidt says our culture is getting it all wrong when it comes to kids: We “underprotect” them in the virtual world and overprotect them in the real one. That’s the worst of both worlds if we want to

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  • ‘Summer Slide’ Solutions Focus on the Wrong Problem

    ‘Summer Slide’ Solutions Focus on the Wrong Problem1

    Now that schools are out across the country, headlines abound regarding the seemingly inevitable summer learning loss, or “summer slide.” The National Summer Learning Association, which promotes summer programming, particularly for underprivileged youth, reports that teachers spend much time re-teaching content in the fall that kids supposedly learned the prior spring. Summer learning loss is

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  • ‘Sowing’ Virtues

    ‘Sowing’ Virtues0

    Most 21st century 12-year-old girls ask for ready-to-wear clothes and accessories for birthdays. Not me. I giggled with joy when I received beautiful uncut fabric, lace, and buttons that I could work on to make into clothing. I eagerly asked my Grandma to teach me, as I had long admired her stacks of sewing projects: quilts,

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  • ‘Rule by Experts’ Is Tyranny Shrouded in Science

    ‘Rule by Experts’ Is Tyranny Shrouded in Science2

    “You don’t need a mask.” “Everyone needs to wear a mask.” “Asymptomatic spreaders are the real problem.” “No wait, it doesn’t look like asymptomatic carriers are spreading it.” “Coronavirus will spread at protests… unless they’re protests over the death of George Floyd.” Expert advice has ping-ponged on COVID-19 like a bead in a pinball machine.

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