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Stanford’s Jo Boaler wants to revolutionize how math is taught.
Genealogies connect us with the past, but they are also contingent exercises in historical interpretation.
What does it take to get “roughed up” by Quakers? The relentless truth-telling and radical politics of Benjamin Lay were enough... more » “If the good…
Brittle arms, unsentimental gaze, nervy glamour: How to make sense of the photographic power and presence of Joan Didion?... more » Obsessed with…
At 61, the queer theorist McKenzie Wark still goes to raves, but is circumspect now: “I just don’t want to break a hip!”... more » Picasso in Paris. He…
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Small dogs with flat faces are all the rage. And it's killing them.
College was once for airing out one’s views completely. Now students — and professors — choose their words very carefully.
Orwell and Camus. Though they never met, they were preoccupied by the same question: How to think truthfully in a world of untruths?... more » It’s…
How to make sense of the impossibly eclectic life of Ernst Jünger: dandy, uncanny futurist, wartime occupier, intrepid entomologist, psychedelic…
Large language models like ChatGPT are beguiling and amoral.
Philosophers don't philosophize; they “do philosophy.”
In a world of screens and ChatGPT and metaverses, will people's sensory memories atrophy? It's already happening... more » Bemoaning breast enlargement…
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