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.
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.
Faux Friendship
William Deresiewicz discusses the shaky future of friendship.
We Are All Madoffs
Our relationship to the natural world is a Ponzi scheme
Autism as Academic Paradigm
The unacceptable ways we sometimes talk and think about the autism spectrum.