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James Baldwin and the Trouble with Protest Literature written by Samuel Kronen Quillette Published on May 2, 2021 “The hardest thing in the world to do,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in a 1934 article for Esquire, “is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn and anybody is cheating who takes po..

The cost of words On the history and economics of the written word. by John Steele Gordon The New Criterion, May 2021 Issue Those of us in the word business think we know the power of words. But most of us don’t know how very costly words used to be and therefore how limited was the impact they could have. Information, of course, is one of the fundamental economic inputs, along with labor, capit..

Authenticity is a sham From monks to existentialists and hipsters, the search for a true self has been a centuries-long project. Should we give it up? Alexander Stern Aeon 27 April 2021 Alexander Stern is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the LA Review of Books, among others. He is the author of The Fall of Language: Benjamin and Wittge..

If Isaac Newton can be cancelled, no one is safe A draft ‘inclusive’ curriculum at Sheffield University dismisses Newton as a beneficiary of colonialism. FRANK FUREDI Spiked 27th April 2021 Share The administrators in charge of higher education in the UK have embraced some of the worst features of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. One of the aims of the Cultural Revolution was to mobilise young p..

Before You Answer, Consider the Opposite Possibility Pushing yourself to listen to contrary opinions is the way to make better judgments. Ian Lesile The Atlantic April 25, 2021 Ian Leslie Author of Conflicted: How Productive Disagreements Lead to Better Outcomes FPG / Hulton Archive / Getty In 1906, the British statistician and polymath Francis Galton attended a country fair at which the attende..

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THE 2021년 일본대학 순위 결과와 코로나시대의 대학교육 대학지성 In & Out 기자 2021.04.11 [글로벌 고등교육]_ THE 2021년 일본대학 순위 결과와 코로나시대의 대학교육 한국연구재단(이사장 노정혜)은 영국의 대학평가기관 THE가 발표한 일본대학 순위 결과와 순위 평가기준을 분석한 ‘THE 2021년 일본대학 순위 결과와 코로나시대의 대학교육’(정책혁신팀: 양정모)을 4월 1일 발간했다. 이번 브리프는 THE가 실시한 일본의 대학평가 기준이 한국대학의 평가에 대해 주는 시사점, 그리고 일본대학 순위가 코로나시대 대학교육에 주는 메시지를 도출하기 위한 목적으로 작성됐다. 영국의 대학평가기관 THE(Times Higher Education)는 지난 3월 23일 2021년 일본대학순위(J..

The Woke Meritocracy How telling the right stories about overcoming oppression in the right way became a requirement for entering the elite credentialing system BLAKE SMITH Tablet APRIL 05, 2021 Every level of American education, from earliest grades to elite universities, is informed, to a greater or lesser extent, by two apparently contradictory forces: competition in the name of meritocracy, ..

The Case Against Shakespeare The Bard has had 400 years in the limelight. It’s time our academic obsession came to an end BY ALLAN STRATTON The Walrus Mar. 31, 2021 Wikimedia Commons/The Walrus WE’VE CANCELLED six Dr. Seuss titles. Huck Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird appear to be on the block. But, if we’re on a bend to reform our approach to teaching the English language, there are bigger fish ..

A Translator’s Masterpiece Hillel Halkin’s lifetime of thinking about language, Zionism, and writing pays rich dividends in his ‘indispensable’ new collection of essays devoted to the writers who created modern Hebrew literature out of nothing BY ADAM KIRSCH TABLET MAGAZINE MARCH 04, 2021 At the age of 81, the writer and translator Hillel Halkin has published his masterpiece—a book that reflects..