Much of the time that we think we are talking about ​“issues,” we are actually talking about words. One side will argue against one definition of a word, while the other side argues in favor of a different definition of a word. Each side can claim that the other is not addressing the issue, because…

I was talking to a former student when he brought up an article written by a well-seasoned programmer regretting his choice of career . This fellow had rejected the management path in order to stay in

Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work? I saw the greatest minds of my generation log 18-hour days — and then boast about #hustle on Instagram. When did performative workaholism become a lifesty

In Praise of Mediocrity The pursuit of excellence has infiltrated and corrupted the world of leisure. Sept. 29, 2018 Credit... Izhar Cohen By Mr. Wu is the author of “The Attention Merchants: The Epic

The National Death Wish A few weeks ago, Tom Cotton and David Perdue, Republican senators from Arkansas and Georgia, introduced an immigration bill that would cut the number of legal immigrants to thi

Mark Makela/Getty Images In 2016, researchers stumbled on a radical tactic for reducing another person’s bigotry: a frank, brief conversation. The study , authored by David Broockman at Stanford Unive

What is your relationship with God? What is something you fear in life? These may be great topics for conversations, but we rarely tackle such meaty topics at social gatherings. Instead, our discussio

Against line-chart liberalism Posted on January 24, 2014 All the buzz in the mediasphere this week has been about the just-announced departure of Washington Post wunderkind Ezra Klein from that storie

The geography of innovation and economic growth is changing. In the 1990s, technology companies like Google and Yahoo were founded in the leafy suburbs of Silicon Valley. More recently, entrepreneurs

“There is no evidence that any amount of homework improves the academic performance of elementary students.” This statement, by homework research guru Harris Cooper, of Duke University, is startling t

I’ve written some in the past about how the predominant suburban design in the US is among the worst features of life here—viewed from the perspective of a European immigrant like me, at any rate. Far

My daughter, Beatrix, takes violin lessons. She uses a quarter sized violin that has been passed around ious members of my wife’s family for years until they grew to a larger size. We knew, because of

Page Not Found 404 Out of nothing, something. You can find (just about) anything on Medium — apparently even a page that doesn’t exist. Maybe these stories about finding what you didn’t know you were

How Spotify’s Discover Weekly cracked human curation at internet scale In the ‘90s, Aby Ngana Diop was the queen of taasu, a practice of ritual poetry performed by female griots in Senegal. Diop’s dis

(Note: although I originally wrote this as a stand-alone post, it may make sense to think of it as Part Two of a series, beginning with The Rise of the Access Economy .) There’s a classic exercise tha

There is a mythic Calvin And Hobbes strip that’s been bouncing around the internet for years. No one’s quite sure where it came from or who’s responsible for it. Part of its mystery is likely because

The Case for Free-Range Parenting Credit... Rebekka Dunlap BETHESDA, Md. — ON her first morning in America, last summer, my daughter went out to explore her new neighborhood — alone, without even tell

Sean McElwee is a research associate at Demos. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMcElwee . News about race in America these days is almost universally negative. Longstanding wealth , income and employment ga

Brace yourselves for a weird night. There might be a little extra drama when the ball drops in Times Square, thanks to one of the more confusing political protests in recent memory. On a night when mo

A customer shops for a pistol at Freddie Bear Sports sporting goods in Tinley Park, Ill. (Scott Olson/Getty) John Paul Stevens served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1975 to 2010. This essay is excerpted from his new book, “Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the…

After a couple of appearances on the interview program “Donahue,” in 1979 and 1980, the author and philosopher Ayn Rand enjoyed something of a renaissance in popular culture, including a week as a panelist on “Match Game” and a guest appearance on “Fantasy Island” as the Spirit of Capitalism. In…

It was swift and cowardly. Defenseless, distracted by music, Alex sat in the passenger seat of the rental as I made my way to the trunk. I remembered Frankie’s words: “It’s loaded, cocked, and the saf

When the government gathers or analyzes personal information, many people say they're not worried. "I've got nothing to hide," they declare. "Only if you're doing something wrong should you worry, and then you don't deserve to keep it private." The...

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IN the early 14th century, Venice was one of the richest cities in Europe. At the heart of its economy was the colleganza, a basic form of joint-stock company created to finance a single trade expedition. The brilliance of the colleganza was that it opened the economy to new entrants, allowing…

Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep map contains the logic of places: their no-left-turns and freeway on-ramps,

I used to work with a guy who did something really abnormal. By “abnormal” I don’t mean weird or that he might be psychotic. He did something that no one else does. I noticed this right away, but it didn’t sink in until we got lunch together at some soup/sandwich chain. We walked in the door to be…

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Just after seven-thirty on the morning of February 27th, a seventeen-year-old boy named T. J. Lane walked into the cafeteria at Chardon High School, about thirty miles outside Cleveland. It was a Monday, and the cafeteria was filled with kids, some eating breakfast, some waiting for buses to drive…