Lora Kelley

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  • Mar 6, 2026
    In 2014, at a small Stanford University lecture hall, the Merriam-Webster editor Peter Sokolowski introduced the crowd of assembled nerds to the idea that a dictionary is not a...
  • Feb 24, 2026
    Standing beside a shelf of bestsellers with some friends at McNally Jackson Seaport in downtown Manhattan, Meg Charlton, a writer, recalled the time a man sat down next to her at a...
  • Feb 12, 2026
    There is an idea, promulgated notably in Derek Thompson’s 2019 Atlantic article “Workism Is Making Americans Miserable” that, for many elite American...