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Uberizing Education 24
- Culture
- December 4, 2017
Uber revolutionized transportation. Airbnb transformed the lodging and short-term rental space. Netflix was pathbreaking in the field of on-demand entertainment. In all of these instances, innovative, agile ideas competed against existing, outdated models. And they won. I feel bad for the taxi drivers who spent a lot of money for a regulated, now near-worthless medallion,
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J.R.R. Tolkien on Sex and Love 1
- History
- December 4, 2017
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) was one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century. Best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945. He left this position in 1945 to take
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Why Psychiatrists Should Not Be Involved in Presidential Politics 0
- Politics
- December 4, 2017
The media, politicians, celebrities, athletes and other groups have questioned the fitness and mental health of the president, but one group has largely refrained: mental health professionals. This recently changed. One of the latest efforts is a book, a collection of assessments by 27 psychiatrists and mental health providers, called “The Dangerous Case of Donald
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Students Can Now Retake Their Test if They Don’t Like Their Grade 0
- December 4, 2017
We’ve all seen how participation trophies have overtaken the world of kid sports. No longer is there one prize; instead, there are multiple awards for everything from first to tenth place. The backlash against this phenomenon is growing, however, and participation trophies are increasingly the butt of many jokes as Americans realize that awarding every
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Student: How Identity Politics Ruined My High School 0
- Education
- December 1, 2017
Owen Rickert always loved his school. The Blake School, a private college prep school, located in Hopkins, Minnesota, was a place he woke up excited to go to each morning. And then, about four years ago, something changed. “Slowly the unification of our great community began to deteriorate,” said Rickert, who had attended Blake since
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The Glorious Inefficiency of Local Bookstores 0
- Culture
- December 1, 2017
Our family lives in the kind of town most people only see in fiction: an archetypal, small, Midwestern town of picket fences and blocks of mostly modest bungalows. Homes lining our main streets are, however, far from modest. Along these stand stately nineteenth-century dwellings, lovingly maintained, in spite of the increasing expense of doing so.
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