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Weekend Edition: 3-21

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If You Don’t Like Reading, You’re Doing It Wrong(“I am afraid too many people are stuck in the same place I was 9 years ago. They do not hold reading with disdain or harsh feelings. They simply do not know how to love reading. They are stuck with the […]

Weekend Edition: 3-15

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How to save the US (“The solution is obvious. The US needs to model itself on its most sanctified institution: the military.”)

Reading to Have Read (“…the idea of Spritzing is the apotheosis of speed reading: reading in which completion is the only goal.”)

Let Me Count […]

Weekend Edition: 3-8

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Today is the National Day of Unplugging — although if you’re reading this, you’re not unplugged

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Stop Defending the Humanities (“This negative stereotyping [the ‘liberal intellectual’takes wing, in part, from the sense that humanities academics and the students whom they send into the professions acquire their privilege […]

Weekend Edition: 3-1

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Life after Guantanamo prison (“I stopped strangers on the street in Kabul and other provinces of Afghanistan to ask if they had heard of Manhattan or the World Trade Centre. Few of them had. But all of them knew about Guantanamo.”)

An Unthinkably Modern Miracle (“Like poverty or […]

Weekend Edition: 2-22

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Beware, today is the Viking apocalypse (not the NFL team, where the apocalypse has been ongoing)

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I Pledge Allegiance To The Pledge Of Allegiance (“Much as I love the words, meanings and traditions of our Pledge of Allegiance, I think reciting it at a time and place […]