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Linkblog

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Media

Wikipedia’s new editing policy isn’t the end of the encyclopedia’s democratic age

This wiki-oligarchy presents its own sort of dangers. The movers and shakers of Wikipedia are largely hidden from public view and unaccountable for editorial decisions.

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Science

The truth about grit

Although this field of study is only a few years old, it’s already made important progress toward identifying the mental traits that allow some people

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Media

Common Knowledge

This, then, is the goal: a system of news that realizes Dewey’s prescient notion—a framework that combines the participatory value of passionate belief with the

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Business

“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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Culture

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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Wine

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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