Creating Content Creators?
At Columbia University—one of a diminishing number of schools with a humanities-heavy core requirement—English majors fell from ten per cent to five per cent of… Read More »Creating Content Creators?
History
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
The Multiversity
In 1963, Clark Kerr, the president of the University of California system, gave a series of lectures subsequently collected in a famous book, “The Uses… Read More »The Multiversity
What if they treated their employees like people?
by Louis Blatt June 2, 2023, 7:15 am …Back in post-WWII Japan, the leadership at Toyota faced many of the same issues I was, although… Read More »What if they treated their employees like people?
Racist School Mascots
Many locals mistakenly assume “Colonel” refers to the town’s 1700s namesake, Col. William Brattle. Instead, the school introduced it 70 years ago in recognition of… Read More »Racist School Mascots
Students Hanged
Hangings in Tripoli Focus Attention on Libyan DissentBy Bob WoodwardApril 23, 1984 A week ago today the Student Revolutionary Committee, which ensures that Libyan leader… Read More »Students Hanged