As many colleges grapple with declining enrollment and intense political criticism, sagging public support for higher learning has become a journalistic given, the kind of as-we-all-know fact that can be simply asserted as context before advancing an argument or presenting the news of the day. But many of these articles are getting the story wrong. […]
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Are You There, Judy?
Even as she showed deep empathy for young girls, Judy Blume remained a mystery to herself.
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