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Jesse Singal
Jesse Singal is a former opinion writer for The Boston Globe and former web editor of the Washington Monthly. He is currently a master's student at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Policy. Follow him on Twitter at @jessesingal.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
Today in Unsurprising News: Student Debt is Getting Worse
The Wall Street Journal has up a very good piece on student debt. The whole thing is worth a read if you feel like you’re in too good of a mood and need a downer, but the gist is depressing enough: Today, two-thirds of college students borrow to pay for college, and their average debt […]
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
Retaining Your Freshmen and/or Newest Cult Members
How to keep people enrolled in your college and/or cult.
Posted inMagazine
Mad Social Scientists
n the fall of 1948, in the remote coal mining town of Spencer, West Virginia, an eighth grader named David Mace led a book burning behind his school. “We are met here today to take a step which we believe will benefit ourselves, our community, and our country,” Mace explained to a crowd of more […]
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The Origin of Specious
For an illustration of how the theory of evolution by natural selection works, one could do worse than to examine the evolution of the theorys opponents. After all, anti-evolutionists have been around since the publication of The Origin of Species, and the original generation of creationists spawned innumerable progeny that have adapted to a variety […]
