The Shadow Scholar

You’ve never heard of me, but there’s a good chance that you’ve read some of my work. I’m a hired gun, a doctor of everything, an academic mercenary. My customers are your students. I promise you that. Somebody in your classroom uses a service that you can’t detect, that you can’t defend against, that you may not even know exists. I work at an online company that generates tens of thousands of dollars a month by creating original essays based on specific instructions provided by cheating students.

Author: Ed Dante
Published: Nov 12, 2010
Length: 13 minutes (3,477 words)

The Pleasures of Imagination

While reality has its special allure, the imaginative techniques of books, plays, movies, and television have their own power. The good thing is that we do not have to choose.

Author: Paul Bloom
Published: May 30, 2010
Length: 11 minutes (2,759 words)

Faux Friendship

William Deresiewicz discusses the shaky future of friendship.

Published: Dec 6, 2009
Length: 14 minutes (3,502 words)

We Are All Madoffs

Our relationship to the natural world is a Ponzi scheme

Published: Aug 31, 2009
Length: 8 minutes (2,140 words)

Autism as Academic Paradigm

The unacceptable ways we sometimes talk and think about the autism spectrum.

Published: Jul 13, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,782 words)

Will Higher Education Be the Next Bubble to Burst?

Published: May 22, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,380 words)