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Phil Roeder/Flickr Is Google Making Students Stupid?
Outsourcing menial tasks to machines can seem liberating, but it may be robbing a whole generation of certain basic mental abilities.
Justin Morgan/Flickr Are Great Teachers Born or Made?
A thoughtful new book argues that teaching is a craft anyone can learn. But there's a big difference between competence and excellence.
Paramount Pictures Is Literature 'the Most Important Weapon of Propaganda'?
Stalin thought so. So, apparently, did the CIA, according to a new account of how the U.S. secretly distributed Doctor Zhivago in the Soviet Union.
Warner Bros. 'There's Nothing Liberal About Specializing in Philosophy'
It doesn't matter what you study—it matters how you study it, says Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan and author of Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters.
Chris Carlson/AP Photo What Would Plato Think of TV?
Novelist and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein imagines the famous thinker in the modern world with her new book Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away.
The Alternate Breaking Bad Universe in Which Walter's House Burns Down
Sam Catlin, the writer of last Sunday's episode, discusses the "agonizing decisions" that took a month to plot.
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