Recognizing the Adult in the Mirror
In art as in life, the real adults are often hard to recognize.
"What is Liberal Education For?": A Preview
One difficulty faced by people talking about higher education—or marketing institutions of higher education—is that the purpose of education is now widely considered to be job training, and on that level, it doesn't appear to be succeeding particularly well
Urban Policy: Part 1—Lessons From the District
Analysts who head straight for urban policy jobs in Washington without first working within their own local communities are probably not going to be able to understand the perspective on the ground, or what real communities need.
After Strange Gods
Posted on October 9, 2014
in THR Web Features
Image: Peter Thiel at TechCrunch50, 2008; Wikimedia Commons; TechCrunch50-2008, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.
Thiel unapologetically commends the pursuit of monopoly.
Faith in the City: Part IV—American Muslims and the Civic Good
The historic growth of urban American Islam has led some Muslims to respond in innovative ways to the issues and challenges of urban life.
So Who Edits Google?
We are only now beginning to understand why the unstated norms that shape the design and use of computational algorithms need to be made more explicit—and therefore subject to critical public debate. For now, Google and Facebook don't have mastheads or editorial pages. The names of the people who make judgments about what an algorithm does are hidden. All we have is the veneer of mechanical neutrality and the invocation of an objectivity that operates beyond the human.
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