Agnes Callard, Socrates, And The Examined Life
“When America’s Top Spies Were Academics and Librarians”
“With few exceptions, these scholar-spies did their work not in the uniformed branches but in the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, the precursor to the CIA and the country’s first dedicated intelligence agency.”
“Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire” As Literature, Not History
Play By Play: How One University President Is Engaging With Protestors
“It’s almost the end of the school year, and more than once I’ve been asked, “Don’t I wish we had just made it through a couple of more weeks without incident?” Mostly … no. How can I not respect students for paying attention to things that matter so much? I respect that they’re concerned about […]
What Does AI Writing Mean For Finding Meaning In Human Writing?
“But not very far into Baron’s Who Wrote This?, I realized I was being defensive—that I was arguing for a special exemption for writing and language because I consider them such immutable aspects of the mind, and of being human. Baron, with the dry eyes of an actuary, sets about deromanticizing writing.”