Daily Archives: September 9, 2022

The Last Intellectuals: American Culture In The Age Of Academe

Russell Jacoby writes in 2000: * A specter haunts American universities or, at least, its faculties: boredom. A generation of professors entered the universities in the middle and wake of the sixties, when campuses crackled with energy; today these teachers … Continue reading

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Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking

Jon Acuff writes in this 2021 book: * Roy F. Baumeister, Rozin’s collaborator, explained why in his book The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It : “There is no opposite of … Continue reading

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Who will lead? (9-7-22)

00:30 God save the King 02:00 Dooovid joins 09:45 The WASP Question 16:00 WP: New York set to force ultra-Orthodox schools to teach secular subjects 22:00 Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking 36:30 Elliott Blatt joins 46:00 Albion’s Seed: Four … Continue reading

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