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I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats March 10, 2025
The Magic Bag. It’s a familiar storytelling device. Ask the bag for something, anything, whatever you might want—and poof, out it pops. We find variations in myths and fables, in jokes, in numerous Twilight Zone episodes. The genie in a bottle. The m...
The Artificial Culture March 06, 2025
I'll start with a simple premise. If we now have direct evidence that the federal government was funneling millions of dollars into supposedly free market press organs (such as Politico, which has received federal subscription payments from agencies ...
Behind the Teacher Exodus December 31, 2024
Growing up, Micaela DeSimone was “one of those cliché children” who always knew she wanted to teach. With a father, two grandmothers, and several aunts and uncles in the field, the New York native decided to pursue a degree in education and became a ...
Kicking an Open Door December 11, 2024
Did the novels of the twentieth century accomplish anything? Edwin Frank, who is known for his love of the genre, is convinced they did. In his stylish, selective survey Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, he focuses on the g...
Does Teaching Literature and Writing Have a Future? December 04, 2024
To wake up one morning and learn that one’s job might soon be “disrupted,” or outright eliminated, by the emergence of an overhyped new technology that excites rich people is – let’s start here – a pretty common experience by now. It puts you in good...
How Josh Brolin Wrote A Memoir As Wild As His Life December 03, 2024
Josh Brolin’s From Under The Truck is not exactly a celebrity autobiography, or a now-sober guy’s literary remembrance of wild times past, or a son’s memoir about loving and losing a difficult parent, although at points, depending on where you open t...
