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Oct 13, 2025
David Simon, the ex-police reporter who created HBO’s The Wire, was on NPR during the Hollywood writers’ strike a few years ago. The interviewer, Ari...
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Sep 3, 2025
No one reads anymore. This is something that teachers of literature like me are always saying. “Every generation, at some point, discovers that students cannot read as well as...
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Jun 18, 2025
Has anyone actually read The Handmaid’s Tale? Maybe Margaret Atwood has. But it seems unlikely that many of the demonstrators who hauled out their red cloaks yet...
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Jun 2, 2025
Depends on us, I guess.
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Feb 12, 2025
A new era dawns?
There’s an old New England ballad called “The New Bundling Song,” about the custom of “bundling” a young couple side-by-side...
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Jan 20, 2025
The quarrel of the day is about work. Either the American economy is littered with well-paying entry-level jobs, or it’s fetid with inflation and debt. Either young...
Oct 13, 2025David Simon, the ex-police reporter who created HBO’s The Wire, was on NPR during the Hollywood writers’ strike a few years ago. The interviewer, Ari...
Sep 3, 2025No one reads anymore. This is something that teachers of literature like me are always saying. “Every generation, at some point, discovers that students cannot read as well as...
Jun 18, 2025Has anyone actually read The Handmaid’s Tale? Maybe Margaret Atwood has. But it seems unlikely that many of the demonstrators who hauled out their red cloaks yet...
Jun 2, 2025Depends on us, I guess.
Feb 12, 2025A new era dawns? There’s an old New England ballad called “The New Bundling Song,” about the custom of “bundling” a young couple side-by-side...
Jan 20, 2025The quarrel of the day is about work. Either the American economy is littered with well-paying entry-level jobs, or it’s fetid with inflation and debt. Either young...