Euthanasia, and the False Omniscience of Compassion
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Posts in category “Books”
Of Plato and iPads: Should We Use Technology in the Classroom?
Elise Italiano fears that the push to “personalize” education through technology will, …
How Place Fosters Art
Berry’s poetic living requires love: love for land, and for people.
A Wonderful, Wilde Mess by the Shakespeare Theatre
At the beginning of Oscar Wilde’s classic “The Importance of Being Earnest,” …
A Long, Cold Lent: David Adams Richards’s Friends of Meager Fortune
A grim Canadian tale makes a polar vortex feel warm by comparison.
Bob Gates’s Farewell Warning
To be honest, apart from scanning for tidbits on a particular topic, …
Why Mediocre Stories Matter
When considering the future of fiction, many speak somewhat disdainfully of “fan …
The Art of Reading, Fast and Slow
Many modern readers push themselves through speed-reading courses. If they haven’t time …
Becoming His Brother’s Keeper
In John Steinbeck’s novel Winter of Our Discontent, businessman Ethan Hawley is …
Can Books and E-Readers Coexist?
A truce can be called between pixels and pulp.
A Year of Reading
Every year around Christmas, I make a book list: chronicling books read …
Can the Print Magazine Survive?
Soon after the Kindle craze, some warned of print books’ imminent extinction—but …
Yuval Levin’s Must-Read Primer on America’s Ideological Faultline
The great debate between Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine—and what it means in the Age of Obama.
C.S. Lewis: Scholar to the Common Man
Even 50 years after his passing, he continues to teach us all.
George Vanderbilt & The Reading of Many Books
Life lessons in finitude from an unmatchable feat.
“Humans of New York”: Uncovering a Hidden Community
Brandon Stanton has made a name for himself by taking random pictures …
Does the Lexile Program Measure Up?
The MetaMetrics corporation has created a book difficulty measurement device, called the …
Of Plato and iPads: Should We Use Technology in the Classroom?
Elise Italiano fears that the push to “personalize” education through technology will, …
How Place Fosters Art
Berry’s poetic living requires love: love for land, and for people.
A Wonderful, Wilde Mess by the Shakespeare Theatre
At the beginning of Oscar Wilde’s classic “The Importance of Being Earnest,” …
A Long, Cold Lent: David Adams Richards’s Friends of Meager Fortune
A grim Canadian tale makes a polar vortex feel warm by comparison.
Bob Gates’s Farewell Warning
To be honest, apart from scanning for tidbits on a particular topic, …
Why Mediocre Stories Matter
When considering the future of fiction, many speak somewhat disdainfully of “fan …
The Art of Reading, Fast and Slow
Many modern readers push themselves through speed-reading courses. If they haven’t time …
Becoming His Brother’s Keeper
In John Steinbeck’s novel Winter of Our Discontent, businessman Ethan Hawley is …
Can Books and E-Readers Coexist?
A truce can be called between pixels and pulp.
A Year of Reading
Every year around Christmas, I make a book list: chronicling books read …
Can the Print Magazine Survive?
Soon after the Kindle craze, some warned of print books’ imminent extinction—but …
Yuval Levin’s Must-Read Primer on America’s Ideological Faultline
The great debate between Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine—and what it means in the Age of Obama.
C.S. Lewis: Scholar to the Common Man
Even 50 years after his passing, he continues to teach us all.
George Vanderbilt & The Reading of Many Books
Life lessons in finitude from an unmatchable feat.
“Humans of New York”: Uncovering a Hidden Community
Brandon Stanton has made a name for himself by taking random pictures …
Does the Lexile Program Measure Up?
The MetaMetrics corporation has created a book difficulty measurement device, called the …
