The Hedgehog’s Array: September 25, 2015
Noteworthy reads from the last week.
Nature Writing Gets Personal
Posted on September 23, 2015
in THR Web Features
Image: Cover detail from H Is for Hawk, the 2014 memoir by Helen Macdonald.
After situating themselves in a “wild” context, both women do what the entire history of nature writing has implicitly instructed them not to do: they bring their emotional backpacks into the landscape.
Can Evangelicals Agree With Bernie Sanders?
Posted on September 18, 2015
in THR Web Features
Image: Bernie Sanders speaks at Liberty University; C-SPAN video.
Bernie Sanders at Liberty University is more than a momentary truce in the culture war.
The Hedgehog’s Array: September 18, 2015
Posted on September 18, 2015
in THR Web Features
Noteworthy reads from the last week.
College Degrees or College Education?
We do not know how to evaluate what makes up a good college education.
In Defense of Scientific Asteroids
Is the science in social science worth defending? The short answer is yes, and the long answer is that it depends on how you define science.
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