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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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The Right Answer, And Other Nonexistent Things

by Thomas Mullen, author of  Last Town on Earth (Random House, 2007). When reading works of fiction, students often think that there’s a right answer for how they’re supposed to respond to the book.  Surely (as they’re sometimes taught in … Continue reading

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