Additude, happy mistake
One of the students in the Sunday school class I teach wrote as […]
An award for me
As my Nieman year careens towards completion, one thought that sometimes makes me […]
A friend like this…
Edmund Wilson (photo to left), the great 20th century critic and writer, was […]
Words new and invented
My new word for the week is ‘chiasmus.’ It means, according to the […]
What to make of Hamlet’s sparrow?
Shakespeare’s use of language is so beautiful, his scope so fraught with meaning […]
Failing to change the world
The new issue of Harvard Business Review focuses on failure. That’s not a […]
Time, gravity and the modern physicist
I took a class with Peter Galison last term, in which we studied […]
She said You said
My Nieman colleague and friend Philippa Thomas has been in the news herself […]
To borrow or not to borrow?
Will Americans decide it’s time to borrow again? The Wall Street Journal thinks […]
American kids aren’t dumb, after all
There’s a lot of talk about America’s failing schools. Here at Harvard, there […]