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All Aboard for an Adventure in Inequality
“‘Did you enjoy your tour? Carrot-ginger soup for lunch today!’ And please don’t look at the corpse over there.”
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Reading List: Who’s Your Susan Sontag?
Five longreads about the iconoclastic American writer, director, and activist.
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Let Go of Your Ego: A Reading List on Brian Wilson and “Pet Sounds”
Let’s go away for awhile and reflect on the genius of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys’ 1966 album “Pet Sounds.” Wouldn’t it be nice?
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Best of 2023: All of Our Number One Story Picks
Every piece we selected as our top story of the week in 2023, all in one place.
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The Easter Island Schoolteacher Who Sparked a Revolution
The remarkable story of a freedom struggle on a tiny island in the South Pacific.
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My Grandmother’s Dark Secret
The music emanating from a storefront church in Brooklyn was a death knell: Once my grandmother heard it, her childhood was over.
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Debt Demands a Body
“The future that debt chose for me — indeed the future it chooses for many people — included a lot of shame, confusion, and pain.”
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Normal Sucks: Author Jonathan Mooney on How Schools Fail Kids with Learning Differences
“We are in a sort of remediation industrial complex.”
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The Unstable Business of Higher Education
Why are so many small American colleges like Newbury closing?
