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“What Is It About Mormons?”
The New York Times is hosting an interesting conversation in its “Room for Debate” section entitled “What Is It About Mormons?” At the center of the debate is the notion that while Mormons typically embody traditional American ideals, such as: cherishing family, … Continue reading
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“Why I’m Not Preparing My Students to Compete in the Global Marketplace”
by McKay Jenkins, author of What’s Gotten into Us?: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World (Random House, 2011) In a controversial and thought-provoking Op-Ed published last week in The Chronicle Review entitled “Why I’m Not Preparing My Students to Compete in the Global Marketplace” (1/15/12) , … Continue reading
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“Legacy of Bias”
In “Legacy of Bias”, published today on Inside Higher Ed, writer Scott Jaschik discusses a new book released from the Century Foundation and published by the Brookings Institution Press entitled Affirmative Action for the Rich. The book concludes that legacy admissions have … Continue reading
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We are happy to send a free copy of one of the books featured on this blog. Post a comment to any essay and then email us indicating your book request (must be one of the books featured on this blog). … Continue reading
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“Should This Be the Last Generation?”
In a recent online essay on The New York Times Opinionator Blog, Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty, posits a simple yet profound question: should this be the last generation? Citing the … Continue reading
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“It’s Not About How Smart You Are”
In this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education, staff reporter David Glenn has written an interesting piece considering the pioneering work—and controversial viewpoints—of psychologist, professor and author Carol Dweck. Dweck, currently a professor at Stanford University, is a leading expert on motivation and … Continue reading
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Kristof’s NYT piece, “Divorced Before Puberty”
This week, in a New York Times Op-Ed piece, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Nicholas D. Kristof, who is also co-author of Half of the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Knopf, 2009), talks about an amazing new book, I Am Nujood, … Continue reading
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Why do YOU read Jane Austen?
For so many of us a Jane Austen novel is much more than the epitome of a great read. It is a delight and a solace, a challenge and a reward, and perhaps even an obsession. For two centuries Austen … Continue reading
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Do We Live in a Borderless World?
Parag Khanna, author of The Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century, delivered a fascinating talk at this past summer’s TED Conference. At the crux of his speech, and the book, is a rejection of the notion of … Continue reading
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Is Empathy Hardwired?
World-renown primatologist Dr. Frans De Waal’s new book, The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society, draws upon decades of research and study, considering such fundamental questions as: Do we have an instinct for compassion? Or is everything … Continue reading
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