From the monthly archives:

October 2009

“The Management Myth”

Three years ago, Matthew Stewart published a ­provocative article in The Atlantic magazine blasting modern management theory and ­education. His advice to anyone considering an

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Back From the Suburbs to Run a Patch of Somalia

Mr. Aden, 37, is part militia commander, part schoolteacher, part lawmaker, part engineer, part environmentalist, part king — a mind-boggling combination of roles for anyone

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The Terroirist

To its detractors — especially the New World winemakers of the Americas and Australia — terroir is a marketing slogan dressed up as a poetic

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Why won’t feminists admit the pleasure of infants?

Why won’t feminists admit the pleasure of infants?. By Katie Roiphe.…

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Daylight Noir

Daylight Noir – Raymond Chandler’s Imagined City (by Catherine Corman).…

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The College Calculation

The most subversive question about higher education has always been whether the college makes the student or the student makes the college.

via The Way

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Longfellow to Linda Lovelace

Although it has many features of an academic compendium — page numbers that reach into four digits and scores of scholarly contributors — this new

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James Wood on Richard Powers

The fiction of Richard Powers sometimes resembles a dying satyr—above the waist is a mind full of serious thought, philosophical reflection, deep exploration of music

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