I could, if I felt like it, take this latest anti-university screed from the Atlantic apart. Laura McKenna’s piece is one of the most tired, cliched articles I’ve read in years, a collection of the classic warmed-over complaints about ivory towers and uninterested professors. It works purely on argument by assertion, speaks only in generalizations […]
Continue reading →So you can file this one away as random, picayune, pointless, of interest to almost no one, etc. Years ago, when it came out, I read the book The Gatekeepers by Jacques Steinberg. The book was an (at the time, anyway) unprecedented look inside the admissions process of an elite college. I read it for […]
Continue reading →“’I ended up with a dream job,’ he says from behind a desk decorated with a massive grizzly skull and a glass statue of a bear. But the last few months had been more like a nightmare.”– Jessica Grose, in a cliche so pure I almost wonder if its some sort of code
Continue reading →Pop culture has become inescapable. I have no historical context with which to compare the current dominance of pop culture in our media, so I will restrict my consideration to its status today. I can only say that, if you consume digital media at all, you read about pop culture. Sites and publications devoted specifically […]
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