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The Physicist and the Porn Star

Max Raskin | Posted 04.18.2012

Max Raskin

The trouble with creative writing classes in the modern university is they do not teach writing. Pop-cultural analysis, pop-psychology, and pop-philosophy are discussed, while how to write a compelling sentence is not.

College Reading Lists: Freshman Disorientation?

The New Yorker | Ian Crouch | Posted 05.25.2011

The summer reading that colleges assign to their incoming freshmen is too easy, too liberal, and too contemporary. So says a recent report from the Na...

Bruce Bartlett, David Frum, and the Closing of the Conservative Mind

Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael J.W. Stickings

The American mind may very well still be closing, in a cultural way, but the conservative mind seems to have been shut down altogether.

Aloha, Mr. Hand

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.25.2011

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

For all his reliance on social science research, in The Dumbest Generation Mark Bauerlein doesn't present any evidence to justify his assertion that this generation is the dumbest in American history.