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The Impatient Patient
Scott McLemee explores Barbara Ehrenreich’s Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer.
Gen-Ed Revision Could Be Gen-Ed Reduction
In an era of record student debt and continuing retention challenges, it's worth asking whether we might find ways to cut general-education requirements by half, argues Zachary Michael Jack.
Online Learning Shouldn’t Be ‘Less Than’
Sean Michael Morris asks: Are we giving our online students an education with all the nuance and complexity they deserve?
‘Quit Lit’ Then and Now
Grant Shreve notes that the genre dates back to the 1970s, and considers the differences between the writing of that era and today.
Do We Know What History Students Learn?
It's not enough to say that they pick up critical thinking skills, write Sam Wineburg, Joel Breakstone and Mark Smith. It's time to offer evidence.
Ethical College Admissions: David Hogg, Laura Ingraham and Rejections
Jim Jump considers how the current controversy relates to college admissions issues generally.
The Liberal Arts and the Meaning of a University
The claim that cutting back on certain liberal arts majors means that an institution cannot be a university makes assumptions that are worth examining, writes Greg Summers.
Wild, Wild 'Westworld'
Scott McLemee reviews Westworld and Philosophy, a collection of essays to be published shortly before the second season of the HBO series begins.