From the monthly archives:
October 2009
Business
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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Culture
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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Wine
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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Culture
The most subversive question about higher education has always been whether the college makes the student or the student makes the college.
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Culture
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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Culture
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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