If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

A “gripping” (The Washington Post) work of history and reportage that unveils the stranger-than-fiction world of multilevel marketing: a massive money-making scam and radical political conspiracy...

In the barren walls of his Calvin Hall office, where the Center for Intellectual Freedom resides, interim director and University of Iowa economics professor Luciano de Castro shuffles a stack of pape...

Before a machine can learn to understand the human soul, it must first be taught what it is required to […]

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All social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students...

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Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...

Richard Beck’s “Homeland” traces the far-reaching aftereffects of the attacks and tries to recover the events of the day, as they happened.

In the years since the November 2022 release of ChatGPT, “GenAI” (generative artificial intelligence) has become a cultural obsession, fueling […]

Charlie McCrary: One reason I wanted to bring you three and your books into conversation is that they are all […]