Fascinating Blog “Innovation” is for poor people I’d been meaning to write about the so-called “essay grading” software programs in the context of Evgeny…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015
Fascinating Blog A billion people shouldn’t have this much trouble settling in love Read The Atlantic Article about “Budget Wives” in China just after reading Anne Lamott’s review of a…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015
Fascinating Blog How transparent do we want our technology to be? I’m becoming a bigger and bigger fan of Evgeny Morozov, author of “To Save Everything,…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015
Fascinating Blog 28 years of changing the world through the exploitation of the pretty There is periodically some debate among the educated as to whether advertising *really* works. I…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015
Fascinating Blog What have you done for a cyborg lately? I’m not the least surprised by this article noting how vital human judgment is to the smooth…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015
Fascinating Blog Will this be on the test? Tom Friedman envisions a glorious world of online classrooms in which all learning will open…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015
Fascinating Blog Michael Oakeshott’s problem with “Rational” politics “(T)he failure to follow the letter of the Constitution … is something that began almost…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015
Fascinating Blog Loneliness, Wisdom, and Absolute Truth have a tea party "Loneliness among the overeducated is the saddest thing in the world." Ariel Cruz has insisted…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015
Fascinating Blog Jazz, Racism, and Struggle Nobody is served by the strict invisible boundary between "Classical" music and every other kind.…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015
Fascinating Blog What we’ve learned about oppressing comedians since Hitler Reading Rudolph Herzog's extraordinary book about the culture of comedy in Nazi Germany ("Dead Funny")…BenjaminJuly 6, 2015