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Living Through the Fall of a Regime
Historian Dominic Green on ‘The Leopard’ and elite corruption.
Shilo Brooks
1HR 3M
We Gave Students Laptops and Took Away Their Brains
Decades of data show a clear pattern: The more schools digitize, the worse students perform.
Jared Cooney Horvath
Read This Book Instead of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’
Ryan Holiday unpacks the philosophy of ‘The Moviegoer.’
Shilo Brooks
1HR 1M
Antisemitism Investigations Hit Three Big Public School Districts
A House committee warns Fairfax County, Virginia; Berkeley, California; and Philadelphia that they could lose federal funding.
Frannie Block
The Viral Educator: Warren Smith on Wokeness, Campus Culture, and Losing His Job
The Secret Scholar Society founder talks about his viral J.K. Rowling clip, the loss of his teaching job, and the state of free speech in education.
Coleman Hughes
1HR 14M
I Was a Gentle Parent. Then My Kids Discovered the County Fair.
It’s the kind of place where officials explain to children that they’re not just there to have fun. They are representing the county. That’s why it’s…
Larissa Phillips
What ‘The Great Gatsby’ Taught Fareed Zakaria About America
The journalist discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald soon after immigrating from India.
Shilo Brooks
59M
The College Kids Who Can’t Do Basic Math
More than 10 percent of new students at a prestigious California university are taking math that covers what they should have learned as far back as…
Tanner Nau
Two Drinks with. . . the Greatest Living Magazine Writer
You’re not well-dressed unless you wear a hat, according to Gay Talese. And you should keep in mind what will be written in your obituary.
Joe Nocera
Who Needs God When There’s the Grateful Dead?
Teenagers need something to worship. In the ’80s, it was the Grateful Dead. What is there now?
Larissa Phillips
I’m Betting $100 Million on a New University
The incentive structure of higher education is broken. My gift to the University of Austin is meant to change that—by tying its success to the…
Jeff Yass
How Thomas Sowell Transformed Coleman Hughes
And how Sowell’s best book explains what drives our political divides.
Shilo Brooks
58M
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